Friday, March 6, 2015
How to
Automatically Shutdown Windows System at specific time
Shutting Windows PC is easy and you can
simply use few clicks to shut down it. But people who work late night often
sleep without shutting the system down. To avoid, this Windows system can be
configured to shut down automatically. So, configure a time in night and your
PC will be shut down at that specific time. But if you are actually using your
PC, you can configure it not shut down when at work.
To automatically shut down your
Windows computer, use the "Task Scheduler" of Windows. Open this by
clicking on start button and search for “Task Scheduler”.
In "Task Scheduler," select "Create
Basic task" from the panel at right side.
It will open the task creation wizard. Here, enter
the task name and description. Once you are done, click next.
Then it will ask you to select when to
start the task. You should select daily if you want to schedule this task for
daily.
In next step, it will ask you select
the time to start this task. Select the time which suits you.
In next step, it will ask you to select
a action to perform. Here, select "Start a program" and click on
Next.
Now you will have to tell what program
to start. In Program/Scrip, write "shutdown" and in arguments field,
enter "/S /F"
Adding /F in arguments will force shutdown even if there is any program conflicting with shutdown process. Make sure to have spaced between both arguments. Once you are done, click next, review and select finish.
Now it will schedule this task at the
specified time. But we will have to do some additional settings. As I already
said, you can set it to shut down only if your system is idle and you are not
working. So, for this, click on "Task Scheduler Library" and select
the task from the middle pane.
Right click on it and select properties. In General tab, select
"Run with highest privileges."
Now go to the "Conditions"
tab and select "Star the task only if the computer is idle for:" and
select time.
Once you are done in this, navigate to
the "Settings" tab and here, select the options shown in the
screenshot.
