Any decent autoshut down software (for free lol)

[Chris n nic]

A few people at work are after running their virus software when they leave at night and want the pc to switch off at x time. I got a program that was perfect but although it works fine on my machine it has a security issue with the others

Any help appriciated

Cheers

Chris

 

[Ex-User (19928)]

Use command prompt.

Typing the following will shutdown your computer 1 hour from when you execute the command.

shutdown -f -s -t 3600

This will take two hours and you get the idea I hope.

shutdown -f -s -t 7200
-f just means it shuts down there and then without prompts.
-s means shutdown (-r is restart and -l is logoff)
-t is the number of seconds till shutdown
-a is abort shutdown (you can't cancel the command any other way)

 

[Ex-User (19928)]

You can also make a batch file containing the above and just click it before you go home. A batch file is basically the above text in a text document with the extension .bat

 

[Chris n nic]

Cheers fella I'll give it a go

Chris

 

[Dafthead]

Ai we use batch files, can't get more simple than that

 

[nosluom]

download a program called dameware utilities mate there's a function in that to do this, is fantastic

 

[Rasclart]

Create a Batch file, save it. Setup a scheduled task and make it run that on whatever day and time and jobs a good un. You can forget about it completely dont even need to click it before you leave

 

[rich[182]]

DH Shutdown, download at bottom of this page

http://www.drivercleaner.net/index.php?site=tools