Here is a trick to shutdown your
computer at a specific time. You might be thinking what great about it,
well you can shutdown your computer without the use of any software. Just shutdown
your computer at specific time from RUN Command. For example if you wish to
shutdown at 09:45 am. Type this in
Start=>Run
Type
Code: at 11:35 shutdown -s
To cancel or Abort the shutdown:
Type
Code:
shutdown -a
Type Code: “shutdown
–s –m\\computername –t60”. This command will shutdown the computer on
network if you have administrative access. Here computername needs to be
replaced by the exact computer name of the computer on the network to work.
Alternative method to create a
shutdown timer or simply computer shutdown shortcut
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.
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 , this means 3600 seconds = 60 mints (1 hour). You can change the
value in the above code. You can even create multiple shutdown shortcuts. For
example a computer shutdown shortcut for 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 5 hours
etc.,
Step 3: Make up a name for the shortcut and you’re done.
Optional Step 4 : You can change the icon by right
clicking=>properities=>change icon=>browse
To abort or cancel the shutdown:
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.
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.
