>-----Original Message-----
>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.
>.
>
There's is only one thing I can think of, but it doesn't
shut down the computer, it just turns off the monitor and
hard disks (I believe turning off the hard disks is like
going into Hibernate).

To do this, right-click on the desktop and click
Properties. Click on the screen-saver tab. Click on
the "Settings..." button, the one next to the energy-star
logo (it is a picture of half the earth). Set the amount
of time you would like the computer to take (the amount
of "idling" time, meaning the amount during which you are
not typing on the keyboard or moving the mouse or things
like that...I think having a movie play without you
interacting is the same thing as idling...) to turn off
the monitor and the hard disks.

Other than that, I don't know of anything you can do =(