how to timeout on xp

[Rileyh]

I have recently needed to change from windows 7 to windows xp and I have come to the shocking realisation that there is no timeout command. So how can do something of the equivalent? Is there a method that does the same thing?

Regards,
Rileyh

[Squashman]

Two options.

Download the Windows 2003 server resource kit and use the sleep command in there.

Use the PING trick.
http://www.xinotes.org/notes/note/992/

[Rileyh]

Thank you <b>Squashman</b>, this has been helpful.

[orange_batch]

Or the vbscript method...

sleep.vbs

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wscript.sleep wscript.arguments(0)*1000

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cscript sleep.vbs //nologo seconds