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How to Force Shutdown or Restart with commands

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 06:01 AM PST

Your Windows Operating System does come with different ways to turn it off or restart. Whether you shutdown, restart or log off, the file that is responsible for this is shutdown.exe in the system32 directory of your Windows installation. We will now learn to play with shutdown.exe giving it different parameters To do this, we’ll be keying in shutdown.exe in the RUN command window (available from Start >> Run) along with its parameter(s).

Shutdown.exe

Casual Shutdown: When you run shutdown.exe with the parameter -s, your system will turn off normally, just as it would shutdown when clicked from the Start menu. For this, you’ll run it as shutdown -s.

Force Shutdown: To forcefully shut down your PC, you’ll run shutdown.exe with the parameter -s -f, i.e shutdown -f. This will forcefully terminate all of your running processes and initiates the shutting process. This saves your shutting time when you are in a hurry and you want to turn off your PC safely.

Timed Force Shutdown: Lets say you want to forcefully turn off your PC after 60 seconds, here is when the parameter -t comes to the rescue. When you run shutdown.exe with the parameters -s -f -t xx (where xx is the time in seconds), your PC will forcefully shutdown after the specified time. For instance, to turn off after 30 seconds, you will enter the parameters as -f -t 30 and for 60 seconds, -f -t 60. shutdown -f -t xx

Restart : If you are familiar with shutdown, it’s not much of a deal for restart. To restart, you’ll just replace -s with -r. Confused? For Casual Restart, the command is shutdown -r, and for Force Restart, it is shutdown -r -f, and for Timed Force Restart, it is shutdown -r -f -t xx. Simple, right?

Log Off: When you run shutdown.exe without any parameter, it stands for log off, meaning, your PC will log off. You can also use -l as a parameter to log off. shutdown or shutdown -l

A Quick Recap:

shutdown.exe / shutdown	the associated process. Logs off when used without a parameter
-s	shutdown
-r	restart
-l	Log off
-f	force
-t xx	timed. xx for seconds

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The Other Side of Google

Posted: 21 Feb 2010 03:55 AM PST

Everyone is familiar with Google.com-the largest search giant in the world. But do you know about Google.org ? If not, this post is for you.

What is Google.org ?

Google.org is the philanthropic arm of Google Inc. which, according to Google.org home page, "uses Google's strength in information and technology to build products and advocate for policies that address global challenges."

How it started?

In 2004, when Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided to go public, they made a commitment to prospective shareholders to contribute significant resources, equity and profits, as well as employee time, to address some of the world’s most urgent problems. This commitment saw the birth of Google.org in 2004. Google follows 1 percent rule which means that 1 percent of Google's equity and profits as well as one percent of employee's time is devoted towards making world a better place to live in.

Projects Launched By Google.org

Over the time Google.org has started many independent projects as well as some projects in collaboration with other companies. Some of the projects launched by Google.org are:

· Google Flu Trend This uses Google's search data to indicate flu activity in real time in 20 countries, thus helping public and officials to detect disease outbreaks in time.

· Google Power Meter This is free software that uses information from smart meters installed in your house to display your home's energy consumption in your personalized iGoogle homepage. Using this information you can understand how you use energy throughout the day and reduce your electricity usage to lower your bills.

· RE<C This was started with an aim to produce electricity from renewable energy sources which would be cheaper than that produced by coal.

Apart from having its projects, Google.org also helps other organizations. One interesting project in India backed by Google.org is Planet Read. This is an NGO started by Dr. Brij Kothari of IIM-A with an aim to improve literacy through a unique method Same Language Subtitling (SLS).

Looks like Google wants to take its motto "Don't Be Evil" to a next step by being philanthropic. Though skeptics might say that there is nothing great about it, as every organization comes up with such projects as a part of social corporate responsibility, credit must be given to Google for starting the philanthropic work at an early stage of its life. It was 25 years after Microsoft started that Bill Gates set up "The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation". Larry and Brin should be applauded for their early start.

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