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3/17/2007 12:48 AM

	defender
132 posts
Senior Member

How to Shutdown PC with Timer

Auto Shutdown Pc without using any external program...

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.

Defender

3/17/2007 11:25 AM

	Siddharth Maheshwari
181 posts
www.technoworld.uni.cc
Senior Member

Re: How to Shutdown PC with Timer

THanks bro

3/17/2007 12:20 PM

	defender
132 posts
Senior Member

Re: How to Shutdown PC with Timer

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

Defender