Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Perform a scheduled shutdown in windows PC

Open notepad
type the following:
shutdown -s -t 6000
save the file as batch(*.bat) type file by simply adding extention .bat after file name.
Example of filename:
shutdown.bat
once you saved the file as bat type,you can simply double click on it to schedule a timed shutdown.Note that the numeric value 6000 is as argument.It is in seconds.In above example it means you have scheduled your computer to shutdown after 100 minutes.you can schedule your shutdown after any time by changing the above argument.



To cancel the scheduled shutdown:
type:
shutdown -a
save this text in notepad with file name that has extention .bat
once this file is saved simply double click on it to cancel scheduled shutdown. 

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