Shutdown.exe

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From: Michael (here_at_nowhere)
Date: 05/18/04 

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:22:36 -0700

Found my own answer KB 820524
>-----Original Message-----
>When scheduling a reboot using AT from a commandline, the
>shutdown /r does not work. Further investigation using an
>interactive cmd prompt shows "The system could not find
>the environment option that was entered.(203)" error
>message. The System account has Full NTFS permissions to
>shutdown.exe. Has anyone run across this and figured it
>out yet?
>.
>

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