automaic shutdown

gday everyone,

i have a cousin staying with me for a while and i told her to go to bed before midnight but instead she stayed on the computer until 3am in the morning!

does anyone know a program that allows you to control when the computer gets to shutdown? like a set timer thing?

please suggest.

thank you.

Already built into Windows XP.

Start a Command Prompt and type in: Shutdown /?

From there you can determine what you want to use. Test it first!

30 second example:

SHUTDOWN -s -t 30 -c "System Shutdown"

You can also schedule it via the Windows Task Scheduler, which I suppose is what you'll want to do for it to be automatted.

Special note: If you use it you'll need to give enough time for the person to save any opened documents, don't just pull the plug on them that would be rude.

how do i start a command prompt?

thanks.

Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt will get you there.

Already built into Windows XP.

Start a Command Prompt and type in: Shutdown /?

From there you can determine what you want to use. Test it first!

30 second example:

SHUTDOWN -s -t 30 -c "System Shutdown"

You can also schedule it via the Windows Task Scheduler, which I suppose is what you'll want to do for it to be automatted.

Special note: If you use it you'll need to give enough time for the person to save any opened documents, don't just pull the plug on them that would be rude.

if you want to do that, just type in your "code" into notepad and save it as ANYFILENAME.bat

then go to task scheduler and set it to run that program at a given time.

if you dont want them getting back on, put a password on windows.

(if theyre smart, when the shutdown starts, they can just go to run and type shutdown -a and that will abort it.

Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt will get you there.

thanks Greeknight.

but does anyone know an actual program that does this sort of thing? i dont like to use the windows XP built-in version.

the site is here, http://www.codetools.com/system/ShutDownAlarm.asp

i havnt had time to try it so im not sure if its what your looking for. good luck!

heres the download to try, you had to log in so i thought it easier to just upload it!

If you got a Linksys Router, you can do that too. I'm not sure if you can do it on all routers though.

the site is here, http://www.codetools.com/system/ShutDownAlarm.asp

i havnt had time to try it so im not sure if its what your looking for. good luck!

heres the download to try, you had to log in so i thought it easier to just upload it!

thank you so much. just what i was looking for! :)

glad to see it helped!

If you got a Linksys Router, you can do that too. I'm not sure if you can do it on all routers though.

i have a linksys router but i havent found that function. how do i get to it?