I need a fast, minimum of mouse-clicks, power-up and shut-down solution

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From: Francis Elers (franciselers_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:57:39 -0400

Hi group,

Sorry if this is very basic but I use 98 SE at home and know most of the
tricks for that, but at work I have to switch on (and off at the end of the
day) half a dozen XP Pro. machines and I would like to be able to have them
do this with the minimum amount of baby-sitting.

At power-up they ask me to provide a password, which is not an option we
need, so the solution is simply to click the OK button, but I would love to
know how to configure the machines so that they avoid this stage altogether
and boot all the way to a desktop un-aided.

At shut-down, I get a dialog box asking me if I want to shutdown, restart,
or log on as a different user. Can I circumvent all of this? The best
thing for me would be a desktop icon which I can click which forces a
shutdown. I know in former OS versions, I could make a a batch file with
the line @EXIT in it and click on a shortcut to that batch file and that
would force a re-start (not quite the same but you get the idea). Anything
similar in XP?

All suggestions greatly appreciated.

Francis Elers.

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