Saturday, 27 October 2012

Scheduled Task to turn off your computer automatically


Sometimes you require turning off computer automatically. Suppose your favorite video is downloading and you have to go away from your computer but you do not want to stop downloading. Don’t worry you have option for schedule task to auto turn off. Only you have to assign time for it.

  •   Open Control Panel. In control panel double click on Scheduled Task.
  •   It will open Schedule Task wizard. Now open Add Scheduled Task.
  •   Click on Next. Now click on Browse. Here you have to browse shutdown.exe and it is located in   following directory.
                C:\WINDOWS\System32\shutdown.exe
  •   Type above path in File name: and click on Open.
  •   Select appropriate radial button located under Perform this task.
  •   Select Time and Date. Click on Next.
  •   If your account is password protected then type your password and click on Next.
  •   Select check box to open advance properties. You have to add comment at the end of path as -s -t -60 -f. Now your full path in Run is shown below.   
                C:\WINDOWS\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 60 –f.
  •   Now click on Apply and Ok

For more information see following video.
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