October 18, 2008

Well here are some ways in order to shutdown your PC with the help of a Timer.

METHOD 1

Do you know that you can make your PC shutdown at a time u wish to?
Here is the trick!
How To Make A Shutdown Timer!

Step 1:

Right click on your desktop and choose “New=>shortcuts“.

Step 2:

In the box that says “Type the location of the shortcut“,
type in “shutdown -s -t 3600” without the quotation marks and click next.

Note: 3600 are the amount of seconds before your computer shuts down. So , 60secs*60mins=3600secs.

Step 3:

Make up a name for the shortcut and you’re done.
You can change the icon by right clicking=>properities=>change icon=>browse.

To abort:

To make an abort key to stop the shutdown timer just create another shortcut and make
the “location of the shortcut” to “ shutdown -a” without the quotes.

METHOD 2

Here is another trick to shutdown at a specific time, for example you wish to shutdown at 11:35am. Type this in
start=>Run

Type Code: at 11:35 shutdown -s

To abort

Code: shutdown -a

Note: all time are in 24hr, example u would like to shutdown at 8:30pm, you should type

at 20:30 shutdown -s” without quote

METHOD 3

you can use a batch for that as well it makes it easier to use
just run the batch and enter the time you want it to shutdown

shutdown.bat
Type Code:
@echo off

title Scheduled Shutdown Batch Example by chacha1234
color A
echo Enter Time To Shutdown (example 19:30)
set /p stime=
cls
at %stime% “”shutdown -s -t 00″” >nul
echo Your PC Will Auto Shutdown At %stime%
echo Press Any Key To Exit
pause >nul
exit

also you can add -c “desired message” at the end of the shutdown command
for example
shutdown -s -t 60 -c “Shutdown Pc”

using this command u can also schedule ur pc to restart
for example
shutdown -r -t 60 -c “Restarting Pc”




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