Shutting dwn a win200 server pc

I want to shut down a windows200 pc regularly at a fixed time regularly
automatically.
how can i made this by vb?
can any batch file help me?

You could try ExitWindowsEx API to do this..

here is a sample from ALLAPI.NET

Code:

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'In general section
Const EWX_LOGOFF = 0
Const EWX_SHUTDOWN = 1
Const EWX_REBOOT = 2
Const EWX_FORCE = 4
Private Declare Function ExitWindowsEx Lib "user32" (ByVal uFlags As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long) As Long
Private Sub Form_Load()
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        msg = MsgBox("This program is going to reboot your computer. Press OK to continue or Cancel to stop.", vbCritical + vbOKCancel + 256, App.Title)
        If msg = vbCancel Then End
        'reboot the computer
        ret& = ExitWindowsEx(EWX_FORCE Or EWX_REBOOT, 0)
End Sub

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I tried it.
but it doesn't work.
is there any dos command to do so?

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Originally Posted by opashafiq

I tried it.
but it doesn't work.
is there any dos command to do so?

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:confused: I have a Windows 2000 PC with SP4.
It works perfectly on my system.
What exactly are you trying to do..

the command for shutdown on nt based systems under windows is-
"shutdown -[option]"
try out shell shutdown -l
or
shell "shutdown -l"