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Remote Shutdown Software Airytec Switch Off [Windows]

Martin Brinkmann — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:26:23 +0000

If you ever encountered a situation where you had to leave the PC that was still running a program that could not be terminated then Airytec Switch Off might offer a different solution than keeping the PC on until your return.

The program can initiate local and remote shutdowns and other actions. It comes as a portable version and installer for both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system. There is only one difference between the installer and the portable version: the remote options are only available in the installer.

Airytec Switch Off displays a system tray icon upon startup that serves to purposes. It can for one be used to perform specific actions like shutting down the PC, enabling sleep mode, hibernation or shutting down a vpn connection right away or in the near future or to schedule specific events.

Available immediate actions can be started right away, after 30, 60 or 120 minutes or after 30, 60 or 120 minutes of cpu inactivity. An option to select the same for network inactivity would be a nice addition as it is currently not available.

The second option is the scheduler which can be displayed with a left-click on the program icon.

The scheduler can be used to configure events that happen once, daily, weekly, per countdown or cpu idle. The available actions that are performed are the same that are available in the right-click menu:

Shutdown
Restart
Log-Off
Lock
Sleep
Hibernate
Disconnect VPN

The web interface can be configured in the program’s options. This web interface will run on the local computer system on port 8000 by default. It can – and should – be protected with a username and password to avoid unauthorized access.

Airytec Switch Off is a lightweight software program for most Windows operating systems. It can be downloaded from the developer’s website.

The Ultimate Windows Shutdown Application

Martin Brinkmann — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:49:44 +0000

I have never seen that many shutdown options in my life. That was my first thought when I saw a screenshot of Dshutdown, a software created by the Italian programmer Dimio. It offers normal shutdown options like shutting down at a specific time or when a program is closed. These are normal shutdown options that many programs offer but here are some that you might have never heard of before.

What about shutting down a computer when a pixel changes its color, if the user is inactive for a certain amount of time, shutting down when a shutdown request has been intercepted, if a upload, download speed is reached or a process is using more or less than a specified amount of CPU usage.

You might have asked yourself why a shutdown program would intercept a shutdown request. It’s pretty easy to explain, DShutdown allows to configure customized shutdowns. It is for instance possible to execute a program, backup or temp file clearer for instance, before shutting down. Users can define the type of shutdown, do you want to go into hibernation, power off, log off for instance or write a log file.

It is furthermore possible to remotely shutdown computers, this means that you can shutdown more than one computer if one of them receives a shutdown command. Awesome software, 200 Kilobyte, no installation needed.

Control Power State of a local or remote PC

Martin Brinkmann — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:23:15 +0000

Power Off is a freeware for Microsoft Windows that makes it easy to control the power state – that is on, off, standby and so on – on a local or remote computer. You could for instance configure it to set a certain power state when a process ends or scheduled for a day or time.

And this is where it begins to be interesting. It is for instance possible to use Power Off to schedule work times for your children’s PC. If you do not want them to play or work with it after 6 pm you could simply configure Power Off to shutdown the PC at that time.

I can think of several uses for running it on local computers as well. You might want to run defrag during the day which takes some time if you got big defragmented hard drives. It would be possible to use Power Off to turn off the computer after defrag finished the defragmentation of the hard drives.