Scheduling a shutdown?

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Brian

Howdy All,

I am looking to schedule a shutdown in WinXP at a specific time each day.

Can someone explain how to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Brian
 
The following shutdown command was provided by Richard Urban [MVP] on
8/22/2005.

Shutdown in 5 seconds = C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 05

You could paste the command portion of the above text into a scheduled task
and select when you want the shutdown to occur.
 
create a scheduled taks to run the shutdown command at the time you want


Usage: shutdown [-i | -l | -s | -r | -a] [-f] [-m \\computername] [-t xx]
[-c "comment"] [-d up:xx:yy]

No args Display this message (same as -?)
-i Display GUI interface, must be the first
option
-l Log off (cannot be used with -m option)
-s Shutdown the computer
-r Shutdown and restart the computer
-a Abort a system shutdown
-m \\computername Remote computer to shutdown/restart/abort
-t xx Set timeout for shutdown to xx seconds
-c "comment" Shutdown comment (maximum of 127 characters)
-f Forces running applications to close without
warning
-d [p]:xx:yy The reason code for the shutdown
u is the user code
p is a planned shutdown code
xx is the major reason code (positive
integer less than 256)
yy is the minor reason code (positive
integer less than 65536)
 
Thanks CurtB and seth.

Should I use the -f switch in case something is running, or will windows
shutdown regardless?
 
you could use -f in case of a hung application

Brian said:
Thanks CurtB and seth.

Should I use the -f switch in case something is running, or will windows
shutdown regardless?
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