If you are one of those guys who love to use their PC or laptop to listen to music or watching a movie before they fall asleep in their bed you might appreciate a software that is smart enough to find out that the user is asleep and that performs an automatic shutdown afterwards. Smart Shutdown is that software program.
Smart Shutdown does not look like much after installation and users judging its tiny interface might be disappointed at first glance. This disappointed will surely change to sheer joy after finding out that it offers functionality that would put many applications to shame.
The basic functionality is to perform an action after a certain time of inactivity on the user’s part. The default setting is to turn off the computer after 30 minutes of inactivity. The interval and the action can be changed in the same menu. Instead of turning off the computer the user could be logged off, the Internet connection be disconnected or a message reminder send.
Then there is the option to perform an action at a specific time or after some time has passed independently from the activity level of the computer. This provides even more options like shutting down network computers.
The list of network computers that will be automatically shutdown can be configured in the options. The administrator can define a message that will be displayed on the network computer and the time that the message will be displayed. Network computers can be shutdown or rebooted this way. Lists of computers can be saved and loaded at a later time which is excellent for remote shutdowns.
And then there are the global options. The user can select to shutdown the system fast, empty the recycle bin, force the system to close all open tasks, configure settings for each user individually and confgiure left and right-click shortcuts that perform certain actions.
Smart Shutdown can be configured to be run from the command line which would make it possible to create a shortcut for an automatic shutdown of Windows.
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There are several free apps to accomplish this type of shutdown.
Manage PC Shutdown (http://www.shutdownmypc.com/) allows you to do it on a timer or action or even an event.
The simplest (and smallest) one I’ve found is Chrono Shutdown, but it only allows a timed shutdown.
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Chrono_Shutdown/1023463811/1
thx, useful to launch some jobs the night or when I need to leave and a big download is not finished
can it also hibernate?
jun yes it can
timed shutdown has always been awesome for this….free and simple…
but one thing i always has been looking for…any such software which may shutdown pc when winamp stops playing or after certain time of playback (i have tried some winamp plugin for this but they are really badly integrated with winamp, difficult to use, and one major problem with them is that they don’t close winamp before sending shutdown command, so in effect it results in Killing winamp leading on to loss of all playback counts (which i heavily rely to play my favorites)
any suggestions here….?
Ok, I made an excellent system shutdown utility with a filesize less than 30KB with command line or interface input.
Once installed, you can run the utility from the windows run dialog like this:
pss 2 days 3 hours 27 minutes
or
pss 2d 3h 27m
or
pss 2:3:27:0 <- = Days:Hours:Minutes:Seconds
In the above example, Days, and or Hours, and or Minutes can be omitted.
PSS is an Acronym for Planned System Shutdown
Automatic time calculations for inputs E.G. 120 seconds = 2 Minutes
Check it out! Its Free! And looks awesome!
http://surefiretrust.net/apps/pss/