Shutdown or Hiberntion Timer

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Guest

Could anyone tell me if there is an option to set a timer to turn off or
hibernate my computer after say an hour? I am a new computer user and cannot
seem to work this out. I want to set an audio file running and then hibernate
once my child has fallen alseep without having to go back into the room or
let it run on too long. In the same way that there is a 'sleep' function on
most TVs.
 
C

Carey Frisch [MVP]

You cannot set your system to use/run or download a file
once you set a time to hibernate.

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| Could anyone tell me if there is an option to set a timer to turn off or
| hibernate my computer after say an hour? I am a new computer user and cannot
| seem to work this out. I want to set an audio file running and then hibernate
| once my child has fallen alseep without having to go back into the room or
| let it run on too long. In the same way that there is a 'sleep' function on
| most TVs.
 
K

ken

Sammyjane said:
Could anyone tell me if there is an option to set a timer to turn off or
hibernate my computer after say an hour? I am a new computer user and cannot
seem to work this out. I want to set an audio file running and then hibernate
once my child has fallen alseep without having to go back into the room or
let it run on too long. In the same way that there is a 'sleep' function on
most TVs.

I'm not sure this will work, but how about - Control Panel, Power
Options, Hibernate tab, select Enable Hibernation, click Apply, go to
the Power Schemes tab, there is a drop down next to System hibernates,
select the time and then click OK. I don't know if you have an audio
file playing if the computer will consider it inactive or not and go
into hibernation.

ken
 
W

Wesley Vogel

Poweroff 3.0
http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/poweroff/poweroff.htm

[[It can power off, shutdown or reboot your pc, log you off, lock your
workstation, go to standby or hibernation mode and even wake up another
pc.]]

[[The action can be performed immediately or scheduled, by using a built-in
scheduler.]]

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
 
G

Guest

Thanks for your help I will give this a go and see if it works, looks good. :)

Wesley Vogel said:
Poweroff 3.0
http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/poweroff/poweroff.htm

[[It can power off, shutdown or reboot your pc, log you off, lock your
workstation, go to standby or hibernation mode and even wake up another
pc.]]

[[The action can be performed immediately or scheduled, by using a built-in
scheduler.]]

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Sammyjane said:
Could anyone tell me if there is an option to set a timer to turn off or
hibernate my computer after say an hour? I am a new computer user and
cannot seem to work this out. I want to set an audio file running and
then hibernate once my child has fallen alseep without having to go back
into the room or let it run on too long. In the same way that there is a
'sleep' function on most TVs.
 
W

Wesley Vogel

Let us know. :)

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Sammyjane said:
Thanks for your help I will give this a go and see if it works, looks
good. :)

Wesley Vogel said:
Poweroff 3.0
http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/poweroff/poweroff.htm

[[It can power off, shutdown or reboot your pc, log you off, lock your
workstation, go to standby or hibernation mode and even wake up another
pc.]]

[[The action can be performed immediately or scheduled, by using a
built-in scheduler.]]

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Sammyjane said:
Could anyone tell me if there is an option to set a timer to turn off or
hibernate my computer after say an hour? I am a new computer user and
cannot seem to work this out. I want to set an audio file running and
then hibernate once my child has fallen alseep without having to go back
into the room or let it run on too long. In the same way that there is a
'sleep' function on most TVs.
 

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