How Do You Time Your Computer to Self-Shut Down?

Question

Ok...well sometimes i do a virus scan, or download large files that take days or maybe hours....

If i want to leave the laptop on for about an estimated 3 hours (the estimated time for the download to finish)....is there some way...or some program that could do self-shut down the laptop at the timer you set it to?

Answer 1

Absolutely. Use Windows Task Scheduler. Click Start, Programs, Accessories, System tools, Scheduled Tasks. Then hit add scheduled task, and follow the instructions.

Answer 2

If you right click on the desktop and go into the screen saver tab and then choose the power settings at the bottom. You can then choose a time frame for shutting down your computer.  

Answer 3

You might be able to use the built-in windows scheduler for this, but there's always freeware options like the one I found listed below.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/11/29...

Note: Although it says Vista, the article states that it works on most version of windows

Answer 4

Had same problem but here is information and download page.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/tshutdown.h...

Answer 5

3 hours ~ 10800 seconds. You can type "shutdown -s -t 10800" at the Run dialog or the command prompt; this will shut down the computer after 10800 seconds have elapsed.

This works only on XP/Vista.