If you are not familiar with shutdown.exe, it is a command line exe that you can use to shutdown a windows system.

If you run it from the command line with no params, it gives you the help screen to show you what params you can use.

However there is one param, -t that is for specifying a time to shutdown.

It says the syntax should be

shutdown -t xx (where xx is number of seconds until shutdown occurs)


However, when I run shutdown with -t 30, all it does is log off the user profile instantly. No time wait, no shutdown or reboot, just logs off windows.

This happened on 2 of the machines I tested on.

Anyone have any thoughts? It isn't a blocking issue or anything for me, just thought it was odd.