Since V0.60 XFolder can also improve the shutdown procedure of OS/2.

Important note: XShutdown is disabled per default in order to prevent confusion. You will need to enable XShutdown in the Settings notebook of your Desktop.

After enabling XShutdown, selecting "Shutdown" from the Desktop's context menu will start XFolder's shutdown procedure instead of OS/2's shutdown.

After selecting "Shutdown", a dialog box similar to the following will pop up:

The main new features of XShutdown are:

- You can choose to automatically reboot your computer after shutdown has completed.

  You may even create your own reboot options, e.g. reboot to a certain Boot Manager partition directly. This is explained in detail when you press the "Actions" button on page 1 of the "XDesktop" pages in the Desktop's settings notebook.

- XShutdown can be cancelled.
- XShutdown will display the progress of the shutdown procedure, and if some application "hangs", i.e. it cannot be closed, you can choose to skip it and continue the shutdown sequence without waiting for this application to close:

The automatic reboot requires that DOS.SYS be installed through CONFIG.SYS. On Warp 4, this is done per default. On OS/2 Warp 3, you might need to add the following line to CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=X:\OS2\BOOT\DOS.SYS

with X: being your OS/2 boot drive.

You can configure (and turn off) the eXtended Shutdown on a new settings page of the Desktop's Settings notebook.