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Shutdown pc with a Timer

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jerin3013
jerin3013 Original post #1
Jan 17, 2008 at 9:31 PM
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


take 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"
ashisharya
Jan 17, 2008 at 11:04 PM
wow..nice info i use softwares to do this now i will do it my own
New
New #3
Jan 17, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Great tip..*gigasmilies.googlepages.com/36.gifAll were using software to do this task..
Thanks..
T
Jan 18, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Nice tricks
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Masroor #6
Jan 18, 2008 at 2:11 PM
Thanks for sharing, but it is can also used.
V
vaibhavtek #7
Jan 18, 2008 at 2:26 PM
really nice trick.
phreak0ut
Jan 18, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Really old. Thanks anyway.
CINTEL ENTRINO
Jan 18, 2008 at 8:02 PM
thanks a lot .... useful tip
mahendraraut
Jan 27, 2008 at 2:20 AM
old, but nice trick.
i was not knowing about shuting down at specific time (at xx : xx shutdown -s). used other all before. thanks.
NIGHTMARE
NIGHTMARE #13
Jan 27, 2008 at 3:43 AM
prefer software
RCuber
RCuber #14
Jan 27, 2008 at 4:34 AM
Thanks for sharing this tut.
Source Link
Gigacore
Gigacore #15
Jan 27, 2008 at 7:32 AM
he he.. nice one, but mention the source from next time..
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apoorva84 #16
Jun 13, 2008 at 1:11 PM
thanks mate
BBThumbHealer
Jun 13, 2008 at 5:02 PM
Thnx for the trick ! but , plz mention the source :)
siddes
siddes #18
Jun 13, 2008 at 11:00 PM
To all those who said "Nice trick"

Learn batch commands and basic DOS programming. Stuff like this has been going on for ages. I personally have been using it to start uTorrent at 2 AM, start downloading and then stop at 7:56 AM and shutdown the PC.
K
keves2002 #19
Jun 14, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Never knows that , i can do this task without a 3rd party software , Thanx:D