Schedule Shutdown

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Ben Wylie

Is there a piece of software which will let me shutdown my computer on a
particular day at a particular time.
It's not good enough if you can just set it to do it at a particular time
every day, but needs to be able to set a particular date and time.

Thanks
Ben
 
Ben Wylie said:
Sorry - posted too soon.
Managed to do it with Quick shutdown and Windows Scheduled tasks.
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The problem is that some applications may prevent your computer from
shutting down, like apache server and any program runing in a DOS windows.

If you run into that problem, post here

laurent
 
Laurent Herve formulated on Friday :
The problem is that some applications may prevent your computer from
shutting down, like apache server and any program runing in a DOS windows.

If you run into that problem, post here
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What about using a scheduled batch file with the command "shutdown -s
-f"?
A bit rude, maybe.. :)
 
PsychoWood said:
Laurent Herve formulated on Friday :

What about using a scheduled batch file with the command "shutdown -s
-f"?
A bit rude, maybe.. :)
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Ok thanks, but i just see why i don't use it, it's because i don't
have this command on win ME. So i use a free binary called
kill.exe (comes with a bundel including tlist...), in a bat file with
timers, killing every program 1 by 1

C:\WINDOWS>shutdown -s
Commande ou nom de fichier incorrect

laurent
 
Laurent Herve was thinking very hard :
Ok thanks, but i just see why i don't use it, it's because i don't
have this command on win ME. So i use a free binary called
kill.exe (comes with a bundel including tlist...), in a bat file with
timers, killing every program 1 by 1

C:\WINDOWS>shutdown -s
Commande ou nom de fichier incorrect
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Have a look here: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000321.htm , for
Win98/Me the command should be "rundll32.exe
shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx n", with n=1 or 4 or 8 .

Giacomo
 
PsychoWood said:
Laurent Herve was thinking very hard :

Have a look here: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000321.htm , for
Win98/Me the command should be "rundll32.exe
shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx n", with n=1 or 4 or 8 .

Giacomo
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Yeah computerhope... i have performed all the commands twice, with
n=1, 4, 8, and if a dos windows is open, i guet the question to quit
the program (1,4) , other time the best i obtain is an explorer restart.
When you are on hollydays and the machine hangs, than no
one is threre to push the reset button... ;)


laurent
 
Yeah computerhope... i have performed all the commands twice, with
n=1, 4, 8, and if a dos windows is open, i guet the question to quit
the program (1,4) , other time the best i obtain is an explorer
restart. When you are on hollydays and the machine hangs, than no
one is threre to push the reset button... ;)


laurent
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I haven't tried it with a dos window ..... but .... you can add the
numbers together so that you get more than 1 option. For example, setting
n=9 is the same as issuing the commands n=1 (shutdown) AND n=8
(poweroff). Similiarly, setting n=13 is the same as issuing 3 commands n=
1 AND n=4 AND n=8, shutdown+force+poweroff. Maybe that will work for
you.
 
Doc said:
I haven't tried it with a dos window ..... but .... you can add the
numbers together so that you get more than 1 option. For example, setting
n=9 is the same as issuing the commands n=1 (shutdown) AND n=8
(poweroff). Similiarly, setting n=13 is the same as issuing 3 commands n=
1 AND n=4 AND n=8, shutdown+force+poweroff. Maybe that will work for
you.
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Great, i learned something new ! the 13 is the fatidical number,
it shuts down properly the PC. It's an analog system/idea to
chmod, an addition of numbers where each addition results
from a unique combination ....

laurent
 
Is there a piece of software which will let me shutdown my computer on a
particular day at a particular time.
It's not good enough if you can just set it to do it at a particular time
every day, but needs to be able to set a particular date and time.

Thanks
Ben
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Just write a .bat -file with line

shutdown -s

and schedule it with Windows scheduler.
 
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