Does Anyone Know How To Set An Auto Shutdown Using XP?

[connelly]

well recently i have started dowloading videos and stuff using P2P on my computer. these take several hours and i was wondering if any1 knew how to set an auto shutdown(or somthing similar) so i can set a specific time to shut down my computer after the downloads are complete instead of having my compute running unnececarily during the night.

 

 

 

Please help if you can

 

 

 

Thanx

 

 

 

Connelly

[Vape]

Your p2p application may have a "shutdown when transfers complete" feature.

 

 

 

Otherwise, just throw your system into standby. Doesn't use that much power really, and your computer will become obsolete long before it wears out.

[connelly]

bump

 

 

 

if i put my comp into stand by and leave it over night will it still continue to dowload my videos?

[Liquid_Morph]

Standby, Hibernatate - Won't keep downloading.

 

 

 

No, just turn your monitor off. About all you can do. As someone above said, some P2P or BitTorrent programs have features built-in that can automatically shutdown/standby/hibernate your PC after transfers have been completed.

[Rhys]

You could try using the 'at' command in command prompt.

 

 

 

For example:

 

 

 

at 13:50 "shutdown -s -t 0"

 

 

 

Thing is, you'd have to shut it down at a certain time, instead of when your download is complete.

[connelly]

Rhys Thank You Very Much, so for me to shut down my computer say at 5am i would type "at 05:00 shutdown -s -t 0" if not tell me what to write some1 please :D

 

 

 

Thank You!

 

 

 

Connelly

[Rhys]

Rhys Thank You Very Much, so for me to shut down my computer say at 5am i would type "at 05:00 shutdown -s -t 0" if not tell me what to write some1 please :D

 

 

 

Thank You!

 

 

 

Connelly

 

 

 

That's exactly correct.

[Olgath]

You might also want to throw a -f flag in the shutdown command as well. On ocassion, some programs will hang and prompt a "program not responding" box that will block until it is cleared, preventing the shutdown from completing.

[Rhys]

You might also want to throw a -f flag in the shutdown command as well. On ocassion, some programs will hang and prompt a "program not responding" box that will block until it is cleared, preventing the shutdown from completing.

 

 

 

That's a good point. :)

 

 

 

Change it to:

 

 

 

at 05:00 shutdown -s -f -t 0

[connelly]

It didnt Work :(

 

 

 

[Rhys]

Are you using an administrator account?

[Vape]

Missing quotes/wrong syntax?

[Estel_Teleco]

Shutdown /i :wink:

 

 

 

EDIT: Type the above in command prompt.

[Albosky]

all thats going to do is show the remote shutdown interface , which provides no option of setting the time for the shutdown to occur (unless you consider showing the warning for a ridiculous amount of time), not very helpful

 

 

 

again , are you logged in as an Administrator ?

[connelly]

yes im an adminitrator now. but when i typed the text in it accepted it but nothing happened lol :?

[Olgath]

Type at again at your command line and you should see if the event was scheduled:

 

 

 

C:\Documents and Settings\sollw2>at 21:30 echo hello

 

Added a new job with job ID = 1

 

 

 

C:\Documents and Settings\sollw2>at

 

Status ID Day Time Command Line

 

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

1 Today 9:30 PM echo hello

 

 

 

C:\Documents and Settings\sollw2>