June 10, 200620 yr 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
June 10, 200620 yr 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. Where the bloody hell are you?
June 10, 200620 yr Author bump if i put my comp into stand by and leave it over night will it still continue to dowload my videos?
June 10, 200620 yr 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.
June 11, 200620 yr 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.
June 21, 200620 yr Author 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
June 21, 200620 yr 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.
June 21, 200620 yr 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.
June 21, 200620 yr 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
June 23, 200620 yr 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 ? I like to fart silently but deadly in movie theatersArd Choille says (11:41 PM):I wouldn't dare tell you what to do m'dear
June 23, 200620 yr Author yes im an adminitrator now. but when i typed the text in it accepted it but nothing happened lol :?
June 23, 200620 yr 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>
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