PS3 Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted May 21, 2006 Moderators Share Posted May 21, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PS3 Posted May 21, 2006 Author Share Posted May 21, 2006 how do i start a command prompt? thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenknight Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt will get you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PS3 Posted May 22, 2006 Author Share Posted May 22, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grabacontroller Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 If you got a Linksys Router, you can do that too. I'm not sure if you can do it on all routers though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PS3 Posted May 23, 2006 Author Share Posted May 23, 2006 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 glad to see it helped! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFiresInTheSky Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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