program to shut down PC automatically?

CircleFaust

CircleFaust

CircleFaust

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hi

is there such a program that will shut down my PC automatically?

i have no internet in my place but still have it at my dads, so i want to leave the PC on for a few days and have it shut down when im not here?

any ideas?

ta :)
 
Batchfile for shutdown -s

Add it to your "Scheduled tasks" ?


As for startup, it's BIOS only afaik. Unless you make a call home to say "Press the power button on the case please" , as I have been known to do :D
 
Make a scheduled task is the easiest way. You don't need to put it in a batch file, you can run it directly.

Run command> Tasks
or for Vista/server 2008:
Control Panel\Administrative Tools\task scheduler

Set the "start in" or "run in" folder as C:\

Set up the date/time you want, these will shutdown/restart as you want:

shutdown /s /f
force quit apps and shutdown

shutdown /r /f
force quit apps and restart

I use them all the time at work, find scheduled tasks to be the most reliable way to do it.
 
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Kami said:
Make a scheduled task is the easiest way. You don't need to put it in a batch file, you can run it directly.

Run command> Tasks
or for Vista/server 2008:
Control Panel\Administrative Tools\task scheduler

Set the "start in" or "run in" folder as C:\

Set up the date/time you want, these will shutdown/restart as you want:

shutdown /s /f
force quit apps and shutdown

shutdown /r /f
force quit apps and restart

I use them all the time at work, find scheduled tasks to be the most reliable way to do it.
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That's what I do and it works great. No need to install any third party apps.
 
i set up a batch file to shutdown my server remotely a while ago but found that even though the shutdown /s /f worked in command prompt, wouldnt work in the batch file but instead would just loop the command over and over again but not actually do anything.

Turns out that it was because the file was called shutdown.bat, as soon as I renamed it to something else it worked great

Might be useful to someone....?
 
Kami said:
Make a scheduled task is the easiest way. You don't need to put it in a batch file, you can run it directly.

Run command> Tasks
or for Vista/server 2008:
Control Panel\Administrative Tools\task scheduler

Set the "start in" or "run in" folder as C:\

Set up the date/time you want, these will shutdown/restart as you want:

shutdown /s /f
force quit apps and shutdown

shutdown /r /f
force quit apps and restart

I use them all the time at work, find scheduled tasks to be the most reliable way to do it.
Click to expand...

Damn straight, works great for me too :)

I use this to shut my machine down at 2AM every day if it's on :p
 
Knubje said:
Batchfile for shutdown -s

Add it to your "Scheduled tasks" ?


As for startup, it's BIOS only afaik. Unless you make a call home to say "Press the power button on the case please" , as I have been known to do :D
Click to expand...

Will be taking a phone apart during the summer then wiring it directly onto the motherboard to literally ring the computer to turn it on. Should get around the whole having-to-rely-on-someone-else-to-turn-it-on thing

Also, @ the OP, you should take a look in the useful freeware sticky at the top of this sub-forum where you'll find a few tools like the one you're looking for as well as quite a few other useful apps.
 
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