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How we can shutdown windows operating system using c program?

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How we can shutdown windows operating system using c program?
posted Nov 3, 2014 by Akriti

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Try something like this -

#include <dos.h>
void main (void){
    system("shutdown -s");
}

compile the above program and save it as .exe file. Now run this program (may be u need to run as admin) and in few seconds your windows operating system will shutdown.

answer Nov 3, 2014 by Salil Agrawal
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