Is there any ways to have a windows shut down as a
scheduled task??

For example if you wanted to watch a movie on a media
player and have your computer shut down at a certain time,
simliar to a sleep timer on some television sets.

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"Dave Davidson" <blue_eyed_joker@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any ways to have a windows shut down as a
> scheduled task??
>
> For example if you wanted to watch a movie on a media
> player and have your computer shut down at a certain time,
> simliar to a sleep timer on some television sets.

One way of doing it.....

Open Notepad & type "shutdown -s -t 10"
(10 being the number of seconds to shutdown - could set this lower or higher
if you like)
Save the file as something like "Turn Off.bat" (ie with a .bat extension)

Then go Start>All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Scheduled Tasks >
Add Scheduled Task
to schedule the task for a time you'd like eg 3 hours hence
Within Scheduled Tasks browse to the batch file you've just created to
schedule it. (click browse on 2nd screen of the wizard)
(NB your account needs to have a password set up for it to work properly
though & possibly Administrator level status too)

Jon

"Dave Davidson" <blue_eyed_joker@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is there any ways to have a windows shut down as a
> scheduled task??
>
> For example if you wanted to watch a movie on a media
> player and have your computer shut down at a certain time,
> simliar to a sleep timer on some television sets.