Is it possible in WinXP to schedule your PC to shutdown in say an hour? For instance if I'm going out and I want to finish printing a few photos which will take another half an hour...
Scheduled shutdown?
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Start ==> Run, type:
shutdown -f -s -t ##
...where ## is the number of seconds to wait before shutdown. The -s means shutdown (there is -r for restart as well) and the -f means force which ensures that the computer actually switches off and doesn't crash while shutting down.
Start ==> Run, type:
shutdown -f -s -t ##
...where ## is the number of seconds to wait before shutdown. The -s means shutdown (there is -r for restart as well) and the -f means force which ensures that the computer actually switches off and doesn't crash while shutting down.
shutdown -a
will abort any shutdown currently in progress for those times when you screwed up the syntax, or when some damned virus has crashed lsass.exe.
will abort any shutdown currently in progress for those times when you screwed up the syntax, or when some damned virus has crashed lsass.exe.
Brilliant, worked a charm. Thanks!