Scheduled Shutdown's

Leigh K · 2 Dec 2008 at 07:36

Hi Guys,

Is there anyway i can set my PC to shut down at a specific time instead of shutting it down manually.

Thanks,

rpstewart · 2 Dec 2008 at 07:46

Use the Windows Task Scheduler to run "shutdown -s -f" at the desired time.

Leigh K · 2 Dec 2008 at 07:55

Thanks for your reply, what application do i need to choose?

neil_g · 2 Dec 2008 at 09:25

create a batch file with the command in.

remember if you want to restart it use the -r instead of -s. (do "shutdown /?" at command prompt for a full list).

bledd · 2 Dec 2008 at 09:40

Leigh K said:
Thanks for your reply, what application do i need to choose?

c:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s -f

Leigh K · 3 Dec 2008 at 08:13

Cheers Guys, works now

bledd · 3 Dec 2008 at 09:08

hmm, seems in vista it's /s /f

also there's pstools, download this and extract it to c:\windows\system32\ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx (it's owned by MS now)

then open a cmd window and type psshutdown /? that'll tell you how to use that program

you can use that to set it to sleep mode instead of shutdown -set your bios to S3 mode, to get the super low power sleep mode (only ram is given power, so no fans/hard drives spin whilst in sleep)

you can resume back to desktop in about 2 seconds this way

neil_g · 3 Dec 2008 at 09:47

yes sorry it should be /s /f not -s -f etc.