Scheduled Shutdown

D

Dave Davidson

Is there any ways to have a windows shut down as a
scheduled task??

For example if you wanted to watch a movie on a media
player and have your computer shut down at a certain time,
simliar to a sleep timer on some television sets.
 
J

Justin

-----Original Message-----
Is there any ways to have a windows shut down as a
scheduled task??

For example if you wanted to watch a movie on a media
player and have your computer shut down at a certain time,
simliar to a sleep timer on some television sets.
.
There's is only one thing I can think of, but it doesn't
shut down the computer, it just turns off the monitor and
hard disks (I believe turning off the hard disks is like
going into Hibernate).

To do this, right-click on the desktop and click
Properties. Click on the screen-saver tab. Click on
the "Settings..." button, the one next to the energy-star
logo (it is a picture of half the earth). Set the amount
of time you would like the computer to take (the amount
of "idling" time, meaning the amount during which you are
not typing on the keyboard or moving the mouse or things
like that...I think having a movie play without you
interacting is the same thing as idling...) to turn off
the monitor and the hard disks.

Other than that, I don't know of anything you can do =(
 
J

Jon

One way of doing it.....

Open Notepad & type "shutdown -s -t 10"
(10 being the number of seconds to shutdown - could set this lower or higher
if you like)
Save the file as something like "Turn Off.bat" (ie with a .bat extension)

Then go Start>All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Scheduled Tasks >
Add Scheduled Task
to schedule the task for a time you'd like eg 3 hours hence
Within Scheduled Tasks browse to the batch file you've just created to
schedule it. (click browse on 2nd screen of the wizard)
(NB your account needs to have a password set up for it to work properly
though & possibly Administrator level status too)

Jon
 

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