problem with restarting in command prompt

Question

I have a windows server 2003 (x64) and i want to restarting it in CMD but when i execute shutdown -r it doesn't work . what am i going to do ?

Answer 1

Shutdown -r -f

Should force the shutdown to happen but you might want to find out what process is blocking the basic shutdown command first. If you use shutdown -i to bring up the interactive GUI what does that tell you when you initiate the shutdown?

Answer 2

You need to specify a length of time in seconds for the shutdown to take effect.

shutdown /r /t 0

That will reboot the computer immediately.

Answer 3

mash up everyone's answers :)

I use shutdown -f -r -t 0