I've avoided Windows through Vista and Win7 but now must deal with Win8 and need to automate a few actions to simplify the interface on my wife's new desktop. Specifically, I need to provide a script to suspend two virtual machines in VMware Player, shut down their instances of Player itself, and then power down Win8, so that these actions can all be initiated by a single shortcut on the desktop.
In Win98 or XP Pro I would have used a batch file. However a bit of searching for "batch file" in Win8 yields no results, and my initial attempts to blunder my way through in cmd.exe haven't helped either.
Is this capability still present, and if it is, what is the command to shut down the system from the command line?
It's a strange feeling to be a newbie again, after working my way from MS-DOS 1.25 through XP Pro and writing a few books on undocumented features of the systems...
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Jim Kyle
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