anon How to: Schedule Computer Shutdown After Specie Perio, Apple Blogging Downloads FireFox Freebies Gadgets Interestin; Internet Laptops Linux Miscellaneous Mobiles Softwares Technology dictionary Tips & Tricks Tweaks Web Tools Windows Wordpress TechieSouls Web Apps - Softwares - Tweaks - News Search for: Enter your Search Termhere Search How to : Schedule Computer Shutdown After Specific Period of Timeanion How to: Schedule Computer Shutdown After Specie Perio, O ‘ometimes when you want to download something or have to keep your pe on for a couple of hours due to some background task running on your computer and at the same time you don’t want to be in front of computer screen then you probably want to schedule your computer shutdown to a specific time in order to save energy and give your pe some rest. What we are going to do here is to make two desktop shortcuts one will schedule your computer shutdown and the other one will abort scheduled shutdown, First of all let me tell you that with this shutdown schedule method you don’t need to install any application or software in your computer. So let’s start this mini how to, 1. We need to cakulate affer how long we want computer to be shutdown, We have to put specific amount of ime in seconds like if you want your pe to turn offaffer 2 hours then it will go like this, 2 hours are 120 minutes so 120 * 60 = 7200 seconds. 2. Right click on your desktop and select New > Shortcut. 3. Copy and paste “shutdown.exe -s -t 7200” (copy without quotes) in the only text field available in new shortcut window and change “7200” with your desired time 4. Click next and write short cut name “Schedule shutdown” 5. Click “Finish” that’s it Now you have a Computer shutdown button, Ifyou double click it your computer will be scheduled to shutdown after 2 hours. (or the desired time you specif) Well what Ifyou scheduled the download and then planned to keep your system tumed on, You'll have to abort preciously scheduled shutdown, Now Iet me explain how to make an abort button for shutdown. scheduling, 1. Right click on your desktop and select New > Shortcut 2. Copy and paste “shutdown.exe -a” (copy without quotes) in the only text field available in new shortcut window. Click next and write short cut name “Abort scheduled shutdown” 4. Click “Finish” now you have abort scheduled shutdown button Well readers you are done. With “Schedule shutdown” button you'll start the shutdown countdown and with “Abort scheduled shutdown" your computer will remain on and won't auto shutdown. Posted on May 15, 2009, 5:46 am, by MOin. ° é & Delicious | [Thumb Up! If you like this post then consider sharing it with others. Si et ke 3 BY Articles you may find interesting.anon How to: Schedule Computer Shutdown After Specie Perio, Registry edits, disable various services, etc. But if you are looking fora fast and casy way to improve your computer 2. Computer running slow? Fix it with Auslogics BoostSpeed! This post was written by Liz Vasileva a regular reader of TechieSouls and wanted to contribute in this blog. Slow startup, even slower shut-down, software, wed- pages and even Word documents take forever to load... And the nex thing you dois star thinking of getting a new PC. Sounds familiar? Ifyes, try Auslogies BoostSpecd [..] 3. Check if Your Computer Support Windows 7 *XP mode’ feature or not Win7's XP Mode uses VirtualPC to run some XP apps. You can use your old outdated Windows XP prograns under Windows 7by first installing Virtual PC software and then install the desired programunder XP mode to make it work under Windows 7, For that your machine has to comply under systemrequirements needed [..] 4, Quick Windows 7 Performance Tweak In this small and point to point post Iam going to share a simple and easy Windows 7 performance tweak which can give you instant 15% to 25% performance boost by simply doing 10 seconds job. Some people say quality over quantity so we can say you are going to make things look simple [.... 5. How to : Create System Repair Disc in Windows 7 to Fix System Firors in Future If you are using Windows 7 RC or beta version you should know that final version is stillto come and you are using windows 7on y new things and explore Windows 7 o get along with new things until Final Version is out. While trying new things and [..] experimental bases so you can Gi tweet © 1 Other Comment 5 Comments 1 Tony Derricott May 15, 2009 at 9:50 pm Can I then set that up as a scheduled task to run automatically every night? 2 oj sparrow says: Tune 3, 2009 at 4:17 am thanx dude. 3. E... ebone says: June 15, 2009 at 10:59 pm And this is valid for AmigaOS, All variants of Linux, all MacOS'es pre 1985 and Windows ME! Just kidding — but you forgot to specify which OS you are talking about 4. MOin says: June 16, 2009 at 12:20 am