Utility to power down PC?

[Trevor]

Is there any utility I can put on my son's PC so it will switch itself off
after - say half an hour?

I am sick of him leaving it on.

Also, one which will allow me to switch it off from a network PC?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Is there any utility I can put on my son's PC so it will switch itself off
after - say half an hour?

I am sick of him leaving it on.

Also, one which will allow me to switch it off from a network PC?

Half an hour after what?

 

[Trevor]

Half an hour after what?

after he's cleared off!

 

[pappa]

Legs do the trick... walk to it and push the power button. 8^}

 

[Trevor]

....and if I'm not around?

 

[Sidney]

You can download TweakXP utilities or any other Tweak tools that will
easily allow you to set a timer to shut down the PC....Problem solved.

www.tweakxp.com
www.totalidea.com

they both have such utilities.

Enjoy!

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

after he's cleared off!

"Cleared off" means nothing in computer terms.
"Logged off"? "No activity"?

 

[SANDY]

i guess its in built in windows

On desktop right click
click properties
click the tab SCREEN SAVER
Bottom right side Click POWER
new window opens where u can make profiles for system to do some thing
in diff cases

sandy

 

[Joseph Meehan]

What version of Windows?

 

[Guest]

If you want to Turn Off the system automatically if there is no activity for
a particular time then you can use the Built in feature of Windows XP (as
said by SANDY). This feature is called "Hibernate".

Open Control Panel - double click Power Options - click the Hibernate tab
and make a check mark on "Enable Hibernation" if it is not. Click Apply. Back
to the Power Schemes tab of Power Options and change the settings of "System
hibernates" to a particular time of period.

For Remotely Shutdown the PC, goto following link:

http://www.matcode.com/remoteshutdown.htm

A little information about turning your PC off at nite:

http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusin...do_you_need_to_turn_off_your_pc_at_night.mspx

Hope this information helps you, let us know.

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

If you want to Turn Off the system automatically if there is no activity

for
a particular time then you can use the Built in feature of Windows XP (as
said by SANDY). This feature is called "Hibernate".

If you wanna talk semantics, hibernation doesn't have anything to do,
directly, with detecting user inactivity, so claiming this feature *is*
hibernation is misleading at best.

I use hibernation all the time, but *never* as a result of user inactivity.

 

[Guest]

Maybe it doesn't work on your PC or you don't know the exact way, "How to do
this?"

 

[Trevor]

Yes I'm looking for a Utility that will switch off the PC after a period of
inactivity - say half an hour - a timer would achieve the desired effect.

 

[Trevor]

XP Home Edition.

The Power Options in control panel don't seem to allow for this.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Yes I'm looking for a Utility that will switch off the PC after a period of
inactivity - say half an hour - a timer would achieve the desired effect.

We've come a long way! This thread started off with the
question "Is there any utility that will switch off my son's
PC after half an hour? ", followed by "half an hour after
he's cleared off", followed by "half an hour of inactivity".
The question is now sufficiently clear. If you search the
Internetnet for things like "screen saver" "turn off computer"
then you will probably find one that will do exactly what
you want. As an alternative you can do a registry hack like
so:

1. Log on under your son's account.
2. Click Start / Run
3. Type notead c:\Windows\MyShutdown.bat{OK}
4. Put these lines into the file:
@echo off
c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -s -f -t 180
5. Save & close.
6. Click Start / Run / c:\Windows\MyShutdown.bat {OK}
Did the PC shut down after 3 minutes?
7. Activate the Bezier screen saver. Set its time-out to 30 minutes.
8. Click Start / Run / regedit {OK}
9. Navigate here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
10. Locate "screensave.exe" on the right. Its data is "ssbezier.scr".
11. Replace the data with "c:\windows\MyShutdown.bat".

That's it! Note that you must repeat Steps 8 to 11 if you ever modify
your screen saver properties.

I have tested this method under Win2000 and I expect it work under
WinXP too.

 

[Chris]

When I run defrag it doesn't respond.

I downloaded windows defragmenter, and although it doesn't work at least I
get this message.

"Windows cannot defragment this drive because it has been locked by a disk
uitility. Quit any utilities that may have locked this drive, and then try
defragmenting this drive again."

Is this a common question, that someone would know where I might look?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

When I run defrag it doesn't respond.

I downloaded windows defragmenter, and although it doesn't work at least I
get this message.

"Windows cannot defragment this drive because it has been locked by a disk
uitility. Quit any utilities that may have locked this drive, and then try
defragmenting this drive again."

Is this a common question, that someone would know where I might look?

Since you piggy-backed your post to another thread, it is unlikely
that you will get any answers. Start your own thread!