Computer Shutdown Hack/Mod (useful for pranks at school, work, friends, ect.)

This instructable will show you how to make a disguised shutdown button on any computer that you have access to with your own error message that pops up. It's very simple if you follow this instructable and takes no more then 3 minutes. :)

DISCLAIMER- I am in no way responsible for any harm that is caused from this instructable. This is for educational purposes only and I am in no way advocating the use of this trick. (haha yeah right, but seriously if you get caught it's due to your stupidity, don't go saying "CrazyCory564 from instructables.com told me to!!!)

Step 1 Creating Icon

This is the first step for creating the icon. All you do is right click anywhere on the screen, go to new, and select Shortcut.

PLEASE NOTE- Some school/work computers will not let you right click on the screen. If that's the case, just open the "My Computer" section from the start menu, and drag the dropdown menu to "Desktop". There should be a thing that says "New" on the top left somewhere, and from there you can choose Shortcut.

Comments

[dnearxiths]

hi .... i did all the steps ... and i wrote the same with you ... but it doesnt work .... i klicked on it and nothing hapend ... then i restart my compiuter but again nothing hapend ..... i need help

[Robot101]

So many script kiddie....

[jgangaa]

I'm trying this tomorrow... lolool XD

[danmox]

if face book is blockedat youre school then go on to command prompt and type in tracert facebook.com and it will come up with alot of writing just under where you typed that in under neith that it should say something like (63.69.181.12) then type that in on google and their is facebook

[agent]

Add in -a to shutdown all computers on the network :P. I wanna see this done at school woth over 100 comps on the network!

[danmox]

my school has a main comp we shut it down all the time turns of every other comp

[pyroman22]

...-a aborts
but if you type something like -m//* then that will shut down all of them

[izhe]

this is really cool. i did it on my freinds comp and it works great. now how do i make it shutdown all the computers on the same network. can you give me an example of a full code for it?

[MrFairlady]

is there a real way to make it shutdown all the pc's on a network???

[ep5]

oh my god!! im gona do just that and put the shortcut in startup folder... Should really piss off Thather (my schools tech guy) ;)

[munchman]

Isn't -a abort???

[Derin]

it is

[agent]

You're right. I meant /i. You have to manually add the IPs to shutdown though.

[madara_uchiha]

Mine didn't work...it had the cmd prompt screen flash quickly and then nothing happened...?

[john47v]

ya, same here, what do i do? cmd showed for about 5 sec, then went away and no results... i typed: Shutdown -m\\FAMILY -s -f -t "10" -c "haha"

[CrazyCory564]

May I ask why you typed -m\\FAMILY? That is nowhere in the instructions and probably why it doesn't work.

[pyroman22]

he typed family because he looks like he's doing this on a network
and you're supposed to type the computer name after -m

[ccrh2008]

OMG!!! If this can cause a computer to shutdown when pressed and when it is put in the startup folder it automatically shuts it down when the computer starts... dont school computers run sort of on the same desktop (ie. you move an icon on 1 computer then it moves on another as well) from a main server in a type of server - client setup, then if you put it in the startup folder on 1 client computer wont it cause the same thing to happens to EVERY SINGLE COMPUTER IN THE NETWORK. I mean lol put it on one and the entire school system fails when restarted and thge system takes forever to fix. Im not sure but is that true about the server client system?

[gcsaxophone]

That. Would. Be. EPIC.

[Dim-1]

this looks like just what ive been needing. I know this is noobish of me , but how can I make a "start-up folder"?

[CrazyCory564]

You don't make one; It's already there...

[ccrh2008]

Also once you make the shortcut then you can go to properties on the shortcut and make it shutdown if you press a certain key ;) hint hint

[jaycraw]

on my laptop it doesnt work though

[jaycraw]

i did it on both my brother computers it was so frickin funny

[artem1319]

dont forget to put it in the startup folder that way if u login , it shutsdown (to remove use safemode)

[REA]

ths does not work on OS X. batch files cannot be made or executed (as far as i know) on mac.

[lopez8675]

awww, so cool! wish i could do it. parents would kill me and teacher is looking over ur sholder all the time!

[Dizzee Whittle]

you can also stop it by going to "run" on the start menu and typing in: shutdown -a

[3r1c8y]

im on a guest account on a computer at a library and i cant even make a shortcut on the desktop cause it's disabled.... sucks cause i really wanted to do this (and shut down other computers on the LAN using cmd)

[CrazyCory564]

Try logging on to the school comp with this Username: Stafftemp Password: Stafftemp (that says staff temp w/no spaces)

[neonecho]

Maybe it's about time we watch some videos.

[firebird11692]

that's so awesome! I really want to get into hacking, so if you have anything else that's cool like this, email me at [e-mail]

[bennor3]

the alex rider series is AWSOME!!! i've seen the movie, and am finishing up snakehead but after that i'l have read the all! i'll do the thing with the ck so whenever i see a computer i can install it on it!!!

[cory.trees]

when I click on the icon it appears and disappears quickly is that supposes to happen?

[west_ninja]

There are more commands: -i Display GUI interface, must be the first option -l Log off (cannot be used with -m option) -s Shutdown the computer -r Shutdown and restart the computer -a Abort a system shutdown -m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort -t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds (positive integer less than 300000000. Aprox. 3472 days) -c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters) -f Forces running applications to close without warning -d [u][p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown u is the user code p is a planned shutdown code xx is the major reason code (positive integer less than 256) yy is the minor reason code (positive integer less than 65536)

[duck-lemon]

i tried abort but it wouldn't work. What exactly did you type?

[west_ninja]

shutdown -a

[duck-lemon]

awesome man nice work!!

[west_ninja]

To be even more annoying, type: sfc /scanboot to disable: sfc /revert

[ep5]

what's that (sfc/scanboot) do??