How To Set Auto Shutdown Your Computer Without Using Software

 

Here's A Cool Tip to help you set auto-shutdown of your computer after a specified amount of time.this is a simple shutdown command to set your computer to close all running applications and shutdown properly after predefined time. This tip is very useful to save energy and time. After the execution of this command, a small window will appear to count time of system shutdown. You can cancel this auto shutdown process also.Follow the steps below to set a auto-shutdown process:


1.Click on Start>run

2.type shutdown.exe -s -t xxx Without quotations. Hereis the time in seconds. you can set any value to it.for further details, refer the image below


3.A small window opens, saying " your system will be shutting down after xxx time"

4.after the time is over , all the applications will be closed and the system shuts downIn the Figure Above, xxx is set to 300 seconds. that means the above command in the figure will auto-shutdown the computer after exactly 5 minutes.



You can also deactivate this auto-shutdown if you want to cancel it after activation

1.Click on start>run

2.type "shutdown.exe -a" ( this means ABORT)

3.Auto-shutdown is now cancelled.

This tip is very useful if you want your computer to be shutdown after a given amount of time, or when you require it to be shutdown after a download is complete, or when you are not present

 

Posted by Admin at Thursday, May 31, 2012
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