How to Shut Down Your Mac. You can shut down your Mac if you won’t use it for an extended period of time or even perform a forced shutdown, which forces all running programs to shut down immediately. You have three ways to shut down your Mac: Choose the Apple key→Shut Down. Jul 07, 2015 Another option to make an app close down is to use the Force-Quit Applications Window. On your Mac, just press ‘Command’ plus ‘Option’ plus ‘Escape’, which will initiate the force-quit window. Next, select the name of the unresponsive app and click. In the above example, the Mac will restart 15 minutes after the command is run, and logged-in users will see the following message: Shutdown at Fri Feb 1 15. Shutdown: pid 26582. System shutdown message from charles@hotf. System going down in 15 minutes. This Mac is being restarted so that it can finish installing crucial updates. Apr 16, 2020 The shutdown command is a Command Prompt command that powers off, restarts, logs off, or hibernates your own computer. The shutdown command can remotely shut down or restart a computer you have access to over a network. The shutdown command is similar in some ways to the logoff command. Once in the Command Prompt, type shutdown /r. Press the Enter key to proceed. Your PC will now begin the restart process within the next minute. These are just two of the many different options for shutting down your Windows PC from the Command Prompt. To get a full list of shut down options available to you, type shutdown /? If you need to shut down and run out the door, press Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+Eject to shut down immediately, also without alerts or warning dialogs. Be careful using these commands though: you won't be.
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By now we have all started to get to grips with macOS Sierra and all of it's cool new features, especially Siri. There is a way to firstly invoke Siri handsfree just like on the iPhone. This though is not a feature present in Sierra and involves a workaround.
Mar 18, 2019 Remotely Shut Down a Mac. You can also remotely shut down a Mac. Have in mind that the Mac and the computer you’re using to perform the remote shutdown have to be connected to the same network. Also, you will require administrator access on both computers. The process looks very similar, whether you’re using another Mac or a Windows PC to.
it is important to understand this first step so that the next step that involves shutting down your mac using Siri makes sense.
1. launch system preferences and go to accessibility
2. scroll down in the left hand pane to dictation
3. enable enhanced dictation command
4. in the box below enter the first part of the phrase you wish to use to invoke Siri. If you wish to use hey computer then
just put hey (try not to put hey Siri as otherwise you will accidentally call Siri on nearby iPhones)
5. click the button at the top marked dictation command
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6. click the + button and in the first box enter the second part of your command so in this example it would be computer
7. in the next box leave it set to all applications and in the last box choose the option launch application
8. choose Siri.app
9. click done
now when you close system preferences and say the phrase hey computer it will launch siri
Now we can go a step further and use this thinking to shut down the mac.
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1. launch system preferences and go to accessibility
2. click on dictation
3. click on dictation command and click the + button to create a new command
4. in the first box enter the phrase shutdown my mac (or whatever phrase you wish to use)
5. in the next box leave it as it is
6. in the last box choose press keyboard shortcut and enter a keyboard shortcut not used by other apps, I chose
control-option-command-p
7. then click done
8. go to system preferences and keyboard then shortcuts
9. click app shortcuts at the left hand side at the bottom and click + to create a new shortcut
10. leave the first box as it is and in the next box named menu item enter 'Shut Down...' (without the quotes)
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11. in the last box enter the keyboard shortcut you created in step 6 and then click done
12. close system preferences to enable it to work
now when you say the first part of your command to call Siri (e.g. hey) the computer is put into listen mode then when you say shutdown my mac (or whatever phrase you use) Sierra will then press the keyboard shortcut that shuts down the mac. You should see a dialog box appear asking you if you wish to reopen pages when logging back in, if you do nothing then it will time out when the counter gets to zero, or you can hit enter
there is a way to go further but it involves creating a automator workflow as a service and using applescript to invoke a terminal command to shutdown without asking for confirmation first.
Hope this is of use to anyone.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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