Automatic shutdown of my computer

[Jassi]

I usually fall alseep near my computer but leave it on because when I get tired, I get careless. How can I shut it down? When I get tired I want to be able to program it so that in 1 hour it should exit everything and shut down.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Poweroff: http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/applications.html

 

[Jassi]

freeware? Reliable?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Jassi
freeware? Reliable?

Well, I don't use it very often, but it's completely free and I've never had any instability because of it.

 

[agnitrate]

run this command :

shutdown -s -t 3600 -c "Shutting down in 1 hour" -f

to cancel it:

shutdown -a

There ya go.

-silver

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: agnitrate
run this command :

shutdown -s -t 3600 -c "Shutting down in 1 hour" -f

to cancel it:

shutdown -a

There ya go.

-silver

Nice tip...I didn't know it could be done that way

 

[blueshoe]

Originally posted by: agnitrate
run this command :

shutdown -s -t 3600 -c "Shutting down in 1 hour" -f

to cancel it:

shutdown -a

There ya go.

-silver

Whoa :Q

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: blueshoe

Originally posted by: agnitrate
run this command :

shutdown -s -t 3600 -c "Shutting down in 1 hour" -f

to cancel it:

shutdown -a

There ya go.

-silver

Whoa :Q

yes woah indeed, thats excellent, thanks

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Poweroff: http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/applications.html

i use this to reboot my server every sunday at 0600, works nicely

 

[firerock]

Another vote for Poweroff. Very easy to use and no troubles.

 

[boran]

I prefer the shutdown command, you could even make it into a batch script.

 

[Slogun]

Sounds like you guys already have this topic covereed, but for the record, thought I'd mention that I've been using the freeware program switch off for years to shut down my game servers at night.

Can be set to shut down the comp at a preset time, or after a preset interval and can be set to run as a windows service so it will run with presets every time windows starts up.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: agnitrate
run this command :

shutdown -s -t 3600 -c "Shutting down in 1 hour" -f

to cancel it:

shutdown -a

There ya go.

-silver

i like

 

[boran]

you can turn that into a cmd file and then use windows scheduler to run it, no need for external programs.

 

[NicColt]

nice command line ...

or you can use wizmo

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: boran
you can turn that into a cmd file and then use windows scheduler to run it, no need for external programs.

that is exactly what i did, works like a charm