shutting down my coputer at the same time each day

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I have children who can access the computer at any time. I've used the AOL
parental controls but since I have broad band as my provider, I have no way
to limit my children's use. I would like to find a way to shut down my
system at a certain time each day, so the computer is locked off. Is there
any software or windows appication that would allow me to do this ? Thanks
for any information you may have.
 
Hello Jerry,

If you want you can just hit Winkey + L and it will bring you back to the
log on screen where you have to enter in your password, and it will keep all
your programs running. Or you can schedule a task to shut your computer down
as you said. Personally I think that wincey + L is much easier and nicer
;).

To do so, follow these steps:

01. Create a shortcut to %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00
02. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
03. Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click Scheduled Tasks.
04. Double-click Add Scheduled Task. The Scheduled Task Wizard starts.
05. Click Next.
06. Under Click the program you want Windows to run, click Browse.
07. In the Select Program to Schedule dialog box, locate the
shortcut that you created, click it, and then click Open.
08. Under Perform this task, specify a name for the task and how frequently
you want this task to run, and then click Next.
09. Under Select the time and day you want this task to start, specify a
start time and date for the task, and then click Next.
10. Type the user name and password to run this task under, and then click
Next.
11. Click to select the Open advanced properties for this task when I click
Finish check box, and then click Finish.
11. Click the Task tab.
12. In the Run box, change it to read:
%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r -t 00
Change the Start in box to read:
%windir%
13. Click OK.

NOTE: For exact parameters for shutdown.exe, open cmd and type
shutdown.exe /?

Gladly stolen from Ramesh

http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/
 
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