Monday 17 May 2010

How to Shutdown Your PC with Timer


Do you know that you can make your PC shutdown at a time u wish to? If no then no worries,Here is an end to that!


METHOD 1
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 the tazk:
To make an abort key to stop the shutdown timer just create another shortcut and makethe “location of the shortcut” to “ shutdown -a” without the quotes.
METHOD 2
Here is another trick to shutdown at a specific time, for example you wish to shutdown at 11:35am. Type this instart=>Run
Type Code: at 11:35 shutdown -s
To abortCode: shutdown -a
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

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