Shut down your system after you sleep

After I wrote this post some major changes to be made had been noticed the first change is that if you use tha name shutdown.bat for the batch file there can be ambiguity with the shutdown command of Windows and when the Scheduled task runs there can be an infinite loop. The system will just open a command prompt and run the command infinitely instaed of shutdown. So what you need to do is make the batch file with some other name than shutdown.bat

There are a number of occasions when you feel asleep but can't go to sleep just because you are copying something important or because you have to just sit there for some processes to complete (eg. de-fragmenting ) and then Shutdown your computer. I have faced this many a times and decided to find something simple. although you may use system shutdown utilities there actually is no need for such programs here.

All of you know that Windows has got an inbuilt Task Scheduler. We are using this and Batch Files to make this possible. The Windows task scheduler allows at to run specific programs, open files or run scripts at pre-specified time and a Batch File allows us to run a command Line command on the Click of a mouse. So here are the steps to make the shutting down possible.

Correction! 1. Make a Batch File named Shut.bat (or whatever you need) and type in shutdown -s then save it..
2. Take START»All Programs»Accessories»System Tools»Scheduled Tasks. Double Click on New Task. No a Scheduled Task Wizard will appear. Click "Next". A dialog allowing you to select the program to be run will appear.. Click on "Browse" and Go to the folder where you saved the Shutdown.bat. Select your file and Press "OK".

If you need to open a file or something at a prespecified time select it, just make sure that in FILES OF TYPE you specify ALL FILES.

3. On the Next dialog Enter your TIME to shutdown and PASSWORD and other options if necessary. Close the wizard and you are done.

Now when the time for shutdown arrives the Batch File is automatically run and the "shutdown -s" command tells the computer to shutdown. Here a time limit of 30 seconds by default is provided before Shutdown (if you need to change this change the command -s it is given here) If you need to cancel the shutdown now goto command Prompt (shortcut WIN+R type cmd) and type shutdown -a this Aborts all Shutdown processes. .
So the Next time you are in a situation like this "go get some sleep" , the computer will take care of itself.
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