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How to Shutdown, Restart, Sleep, Lock and Hibernate using command line

How to  Shutdown, Restart, Sleep, Lock and Hibernate using command line on Microsoft Windows Vista.
1. Shutdown your Computer

Shutdown.exe -s -t 00

Force all applications to close and shutdown immediately
Shutdown.exe -s (After 30s…)

2. Restart Computer

Shutdown.exe -r -t 00

3. Sleep Computer

Rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Sleep

4. Lock your Computer

Rundll32.exe user32.dll LockWorkStation

5. Hibernate Computer

Rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate

So for anyone who would like [...]

Windows Vista SP1 RC Builds Expire Very Soon

Shit! My Windows Vista x64 Service Pack 1 RC build expire soon. I was download Windows Vista X64 SP1 RC build few month back from MSDN and it’s going to expire end of the June 2008.
Hi there -

Quick reminder for all of you out there who helped test Windows Vista SP1 and may still be running [...]

Adobe Acrobat 9 Coming Soon

Adobe has released Acrobat 9, the latest version of its PDF document tool that includes built-in support for Flash and multimedia content.
Acrobat 9 lets users convert MOV and WMV files to Flash content that can be embedded within PDFs alongside audio content and even 3D models. The free Acrobat Reader 9 will play the movies, [...]

Teracom Trainings Complete Dvd Download

Fundamentals of Telecommunications 1
Part 1 Fundamentals of Telephony
1.03 The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
1.05 Analog Circuits
1.07 What is Sound?
1.09 The Voiceband
1.11 Plain Ordinary Telephone Service (POTS)
1.13 DTMF Address Signaling
1.15 Signaling System 7 (SS7)
Part 2 Telecom Equipment
2.03 Telephone Switches
2.05 PBX vs. Centrex
2.07 Voice VPNs
2.09 Call Centers
Part 3 The Telecommunications Industry
3.03 US Domestic Telcos
3.05 AT&T and Verizon
3.07 [...]

Asus releases details on desktop Eee

ASUS has finally – finally! – confirmed the existence of the Eee Box.
The company claims its desktop will be just 1 litre in volume, a rather odd measurement for a computer, but Asus are being rather vague on the exact dimensions of the upcoming hardware. The only details suggest that it will be as “slim [...]