It may happen sometimes when you are working on your computer and you suddenly see a message saying that this computer is getting shutdown with in the next 60 seconds and then if you don’t know how to abort the shutdown you will loose all your unsaved data after 60 seconds

shutdown-message

This may also happen to you when you are working on the computer connected to your LAN network and some one just to annoy you try to shutdown the computer you are working on.(as shown in the above image)

So, In this article we will discuss all the methods and tools with which you can abort shutdown initiated by some else or any application on windows, this way you can prevent what ever closing of all the programs and loosing of data which you have not saved.

There are simple ways through which you can simply abort a shutdown with minimum effort required at your end.

The first method to abort or stop initiated shutdown of your computer is by typing a command at the run prompt and press Ok. We recommend you can also create a desktop shortcut for the same so you don’t have to type the command to abort shutdown again and again if this unexpected shutdown notification happens very frequently.

Here it goes….

First Method: Abort Shutdown Command Shortcut

When you see the shutdown notification screen with some message, quickly open Start Menu >> Run prompt and type

shutdown –a

and press Ok, that’s it done.

You can optionally create a desktop shortcut for the same, here is how to do it.

1. Right click on the empty area of the desktop and select New >> Desktop (create shortcut)

2. In the target box type shutdown.exe –a

3. Name the shortcut as Abort Shutdown or any other name you like

4. click Finish and you will see the new desktop shortcut which will act same as typing a command quickly

Note: If you are not comfortable typing a command you should better create desktop shortcut.