pre-scheduled shut down

[Mike]

Is there any way to shut down the system at a specific
time automatically without using additional resources like
Shutdown.exe utility from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit?

 

[Paul R. Sadowski]

Using WMI and a VBS script

set osSet = GetObject("winmgmts:").InstancesOf("Win32_OperatingSystem")
for each os in osSet
os.Win32Shutdown 1
' coment the above and uncoment the below for forced shutdown
' os.Win32Shutdown 4
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