Many a times we want to schedule a shutdown time during nights and there are many software available to do this. But Windows has built in commands for scheduling shutdown with many features.
These are CMD commands. So you have to go to Start > Run > Type "CMD"
and then
The basic command to schedule Shutdown in XP is
" shutdown -s -t xxx " where xxx stands for no. of seconds to wait before shutdown. For eg., if you want to shutdown your PC after 2 hours 3 mins, then the command is " shutdown -s -t 7389 " (without the quotes) ( 123 mins * 60 = 7380 secs )
For more options, you can type " shutdown ? " for help.
And for Vista, though the command is same as above, unfortunately, you can schedule the shutdown only for a maximum of 600 secs (10 mins).
But no worries, because there is an excellent light weight freeware program "WinOFF" which has many more features for scheduling shutdown and you can download it from here (726 KB).
And for music lovers, you can schedule shutdown using your audio player. Check it out here.
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3 comments:
Nice, that's a very useful tip. I no longer would have to use third-party applications for shutting down my PC at a scheduled time.
@haris Thanks !!
I have ben using AMP Winoff for a long long time.
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