how to automatically shutdown at a particular set time

[vinayb]

badly need a way by which I can auto shut the comp at say 12am in the night everyday... Any ideas???

 

[superjohnyo]

http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/WinOFF.php

Haven't actually used it before, but it looks like it will work.

 

[bob4432]

paste this into notepad:

shutdown -s -t 60 -c "Shutting Down in 1 minute" -f

then save it as sd.bat wherever you want. next use task manager to run it every night at 12AM. you can change the 60 to however many seconds you want, and the part in the ""s is what the windows will show once you execute the bat file either by double clicking on it or through task manager.

if you run this and don't want the computer to shutdown, do the following to cancel it:
start->run->cmd.exe->shutdown -a

this will kill the shutdown command that this batch file executes

 

[fuzzynavel]

nice info bob........what I would like to know is where do you people learn all these useful little bits and peices??

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: fuzzynavel
nice info bob........what I would like to know is where do you people learn all these useful little bits and peices??

read, experiment, read, school, read, f*ck stuff up occasionally, read, read, read 😀

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: bob4432
paste this into notepad:

shutdown -s -t 60 -c "Shutting Down in 1 minute" -f

then save it as shutdown.bat wherever you want. next use task manager to run it every night at 12AM. you can change the 60 to however many seconds you want, and the part in the ""s is what the windows will show once you execute the bat file either by double clicking on it or through task manager.

if you run this and don't want the computer to shutdown, do the following to cancel it:
start->run->cmd.exe->shutdown -a

this will kill the shutdown command that this batch file executes

Ding ding ding :beer:

 

[MobiusPizza]

Windows Scheduler
And put Dos command "shutdown -s"

 

[bob4432]

sh!t, name it sd.bat, for some reason shutdown.bat doesn't work 🙁

 

[Muse]

I've been using Poweroff. It is pretty configurable and there's a bunch of options. Free, too.

 

[Vegito]

shutdown also lets u remotely do other people's pc if you have admin rights.. how i F- with people at work.. "virus virus" haha etc..
-s shutdown
-r reboot
-m \\machinename

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Muse
I've been using Poweroff. It is pretty configurable and there's a bunch of options. Free, too.

i use poweroff on my win2kpro boxes, but since the op had xp, i used this. poweroff is excellent 😀

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: forcesho
shutdown also lets u remotely do other people's pc if you have admin rights.. how i F- with people at work.. "virus virus" haha etc..
-s shutdown
-r reboot
-m \\machinename

that is f*cked up..... use -f too :evil:

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: forcesho
shutdown also lets u remotely do other people's pc if you have admin rights.. how i F- with people at work.. "virus virus" haha etc..
-s shutdown
-r reboot
-m \\machinename

that is f*cked up..... use -f too :evil:

Fvcked-up is using a household timer to turn the power off on their monitor for 15 minutes per day.

 

[vinayb]

whoa.. didnt know that such a simple question couldn attract this much attention
anyways, thanks a ton