Vista Tutorial - Can vista do this???

Hello group, i cant figure out how to make my computer completely shutdown
after a certain amount of time. I only see how to change the sleep and
hibernate settings. What am i missing? Thanks group.

Hi,

As far as I know, there's nothing in Vista to do this.

You can choose to turn off the display and the hard drive :

Control Panel>PowerOptions> Change plan Settings>Change Advanced Power Settings

there is a gadget, from here:

Download AutoShutdown Vista Gadget 1.4.1 - Vista gadget that will you access to an automatic shutdown utility on your desktop or sidebar - Softpedia

Hope that helps

SIW2

C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe. Run it from Task Scheduler, say, at a
certain time using whatever switches (here:
http://itsvista.com/2007/03/shutdown/ ) you need.

Or, you can try scheduled scripts/commands:
http://www.msfn.org/board/Shutdown-scripts-t113912.html

Or, try this free tool:
http://www.xfutureblog.com/2007/08/2...sta-automatic/

Search the web (Vista shutdown.exe) or such for more.
Michael

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