paulajane1968 said:
I have a teenage daughter who will not switch her computer off, and it up to
all hours. Is there anyway i can time the computer, to shut down at a
certain time. I would be grateful for any help. Thanks
You could use the Task Scheduler (visible in the Control Panel)
to schedule shutdown.exe at a given time, preferably with a
lead time of 10 minutes or so (-t 600).
To prevent her from restarting the PC, you could schedule a
similar job to run every 5 minutes between the hours of 11pm
and 7am.
You would have to make sure that her account privileges prevent
her from tampering with these jobs or from deleting files in the
c:\Windows\Tasks or c:\Windows\system32 folder.
There is an overall issue of parental control here. If you
implement the above measures then you risk starting a cat
and mouse game. Depending on her resources, she might
well outsmart you. It's like fitting locks to certain rooms in
the house. She might, in fact, be one step ahead of you and
read this note! A far better way would be to apply appropriate
parental control methods to influence her. There are countless
books on the subject.