Is there a timer to automatically shut down windows?

davetrousers

Is there such a thing as a timer that will automatically shut down my computer (XP) in a few hours?

I go home at 5pm but need to leave my comp. on for a few more hours so it can finish what it's doing then shut down.

Any help?

Thanks

westferret

Go to control panel> power options> then you can sort it out from there. I thing the best thing you can do is the hibernates thing unless anyone else can suggest better

charmed-imsure

Yes there is, it's power save mode (really sorry I can't remember how to find it though) and you can set it up to turn off the monitor after a certain time then switch off too after a certain time. Have a quick ganders in help & support for power save mode (I'm sure it's called that).

fwor

Another way to do this would be to open a command prompt and type

"shutdown -t xxxx -f -s"

where xxxx is the number of seconds that you want to elapse until shutdown occurs. The -f will force any running program to close before shutting down.

unrich

create a batch file in c:\windows\system32
e.g. shutme.bat with the single command.
shutdown -f -s

Then start a command promt: (start, run, "cmd" enter).

Type : "AT" enter
it will tell you you have no entries in list.
Say you want to shutdown at 00:45
Type "AT 00:45 c:\windows\system32\shutme.bat".
Look at what it says now when you type "AT" enter.

Type "AT /H" for help on other commands and deleting jobs you have set up.

TonyLisaP

Or you can use task scheduler and schedule c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe to shut down everyday at a time of your choosing.

Goto control panel, administrative tools to find the task scheduler.

fwor

TonyLisaP wrote: »

Or you can use task scheduler and schedule c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe to shut down everyday at a time of your choosing.

That was what I thought of first, but it doesn't work (or not on my PC at least). For some reason I get an "access denied" error.

unrich

Are you the administrator?

TonyLisaP

Where do you get the access denied error and what OS are you running? AT is the same thing really just not very user friendly.

fwor

unrich wrote: »

Are you the administrator?

Yes.

The OS is XP Pro, and the error message occurs when the .job file is created - not when the job is supposed to run (it just says Cannot Start or words to that effect).

TonyLisaP

Can you create any scheduled tasks at all?