Simple Power Question

[PopeDragunov]

I want to go to sleep. However I am almost done downloading a movie.

I have had power options set to "NEVR TRUN OFF EVR" for like a year.

When I set them to "turn off monitor: 1 hour" and "turn off disks: 1 hour" it will wait until I am idle for an hour, no input, and turn off the comp, right?

[StandingCow]

I want to go to sleep. However I am almost done downloading a movie.

I have had power options set to "NEVR TRUN OFF EVR" for like a year.

When I set them to "turn off monitor: 1 hour" and "turn off disks: 1 hour" it will wait until I am idle for an hour, no input, and turn off the comp, right?

It wont turn off the entire computer, but it will shut off your hard drive and monitor.

[PopeDragunov]

how i make entier computr shut dwn

[FaKToR]

You could have it go into stand by.

[Enforcer]

how i make entier computr shut dwn

You probably need a seperate program. It does it automatically on my Win2K3 :o

[Agent Law]

I think the most you can do is have it go into hibernation.

[Damned]

hibernation will do you fine if your going to use it again tomorrow

[Degree:N]

how i make entier computr shut dwn

A bit late, but you could use a bat file with the shutdown command:

shutdown_computer.bat
@echo off

shutdown -s -f -t 10 -c "Closing programs and shutting down"

cls

where the computer shuts down in 10 seconds, so change the 10 to whatever you want (and the comment etc).

[Rob_F]

A bit late, but you could use a bat file with the shutdown command:

shutdown_computer.bat
@echo off

shutdown -s -f -t 10 -c "Closing programs and shutting down"

cls

where the computer shuts down in 10 seconds, so change the 10 to whatever you want (and the comment etc).

Yeah, use that with the Task Scheduler and you should be home free.

[Prowl]

so how would you schedule it to shut your pc after a particular task is complete?

[Rob_F]

so how would you schedule it to shut your pc after a particular task is complete?

I don't believe you can use Task Scheduler to run tasks based on the status of another task(it's not cron after all); Pope's question was how to make a PC shut off after an hour :p

And on that note, a slightly easier way to do what Pope wanted, just do Start -> Run and dump the following into the box, then click "OK":

shutdown -s -f -t 3600

Note that "3600" is an hour, just in seconds. If you want to change the time interval; break it down into seconds and replace the "3600" with the time you desire.

Same procedure if you want to abort, except with this command:

shutdown -a

[Steadman]

If you're torrenting, some of them come with built-in shutdown programs.

I've never tried them so I cannot vouch for their validity