Scheduling windows to shut down at a certain time

Sam · 17 Oct 2008 at 14:27

Hi

What is the best way to get windows to shut down at a certain time ?

Quick answer appreciated

Tnx

bledd · 17 Oct 2008 at 14:35

scheduled tasks
add a task

choose "shutdown.exe /s"

Sam · 17 Oct 2008 at 14:36

bledd. said:
scheduled tasks
add a task

choose "shutdown.exe /s"

Where would i find that ?

Tnx

helmutcheese · 17 Oct 2008 at 14:38

Control Panel > Admin Tools > Task Sched.

Sam · 17 Oct 2008 at 14:41

helmutcheese said:
Control Panel > Admin Tools > Task Sched.

Thanks, i have that but i cannot find shutdown.exe ! I have searched and see an exe in system32 but it does not make my system to shut down.

Sorry to be a pain guys

rainbow6six · 17 Oct 2008 at 14:44

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32

double click it and see what happens?

bledd · 17 Oct 2008 at 14:46

choose that as the task, and if it says 'arguments' type /S in there

can't remember what it's like now..

xp or vista?

helmutcheese · 17 Oct 2008 at 14:49

Sam said:
Thanks, i have that but i cannot find shutdown.exe ! I have searched and see an exe in system32 but it does not make my system to shut down.

Sorry to be a pain guys

LOL, I thought you mean the Task Sched.

AFAIR, its NTshutdown.exe or such (you must have seen Windows or an App calling for this before).

Sam · 17 Oct 2008 at 15:12

rainbow6six said:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32

double click it and see what happens?

Double click shutdown.exe - nothing happens

helmutcheese said:
LOL, I thought you mean the Task Sched.

AFAIR, its NTshutdown.exe or such (you must have seen windows or an AP calling for this before).

hmmmm

!TIMMY! · 17 Oct 2008 at 15:15

Download this.

helmutcheese · 17 Oct 2008 at 15:22

BTW, You can shutdown PC using Tweak Now software (pretty crap in Vista but the Auto Shutdown is worth it).

You can't set a time as such but x hrs-x mins till shutdown.

bledd · 17 Oct 2008 at 15:44

http://cyber-knowledge.net/blog/images/thumbs/pics/task_scheduler.jpg

in the arguments bit, type

/s

Sam · 17 Oct 2008 at 16:06

Sorted, cheers for the help guys

Little guide i whisked up

Firstly you need to make sure that you can see hidden folder names, open any folder then click Tools > Folder Options > View > Hide extensions for unknown file types (make sure this is unticked)
Now you will need to create a .txt file and inside it write “shutdown /s /f /t 55”
Now you need to save and exit and then rename the file shutdown.BAT
This will turn it into a batch file and if you double click it will shut the pc down giving you a 55 second warning

Put this somewhere safe and point the windows scheduler to it so that it shuts the pc down

Dappy · 18 Oct 2008 at 00:31

Sam said:
Hi

What is the best way to get windows to shut down at a certain time ?

Quick answer appreciated

Tnx

I use DH Shutdown - http://www.drivercleaner.net/index.php?site=tools