Delayed shutdown on windows 7

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:40 am

I like listening to internet radio when I go to bed but obviously don't want to leave my pc on all night just for that.

In XP I remember there were power options and you could select how long your pc wasn't in use, it would hibernate or shutdown. I'll be blowed if I can find that option on 7 so I went off googling and found this nice little app Delayed Shutdown it's free and works well. Smile

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Delayed Shutdown does its job well and doesn't get hung up by anything. It says it will shut down, and it will. Therefore, anyone needing a delayed system shutdown for any reason should take advantage of this free utility.

Just thought I'd let you guys aware of it, incase you need to delay the shutdown of your pc for any reason. Wink

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:06 am

click start,type power options and click it,click on the plan you want and click change plan settings.

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:09 am

Thats a sweet little app ! (You can also use windows scheduler to shut down your PC)

djdezzie wrote:

but obviously don't want to leave my pc on all night just for that.

My desktops run 24/7/365... short of a wincrap or prolonged power outage...

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 5:23 am

iamnephilim wrote:

click start,type power options and click it,click on the plan you want and click change plan settings.

I knew it would be on here somewhere. Oh well this little thing works great and is exactly what I wanted, so I'll be sticking with it. Smile

Thanks for the heads up guys for future reference. Wink

Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:32 pm

funily enough was lookin for this the other day. i just put power in the search function and yeh, choose a plan. nice app though

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:38 pm

cmd, shutdown -t "time in seconds" 3600 seconds to the hour or near as damned.

So a shutdown in 2 hours is

shutdown -t 7200

Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:41 pm

CHILI25 wrote:

cmd, shutdown -t "time in seconds" 3600 seconds to the hour or near as damned.

So a shutdown in 2 hours is

shutdown -t 7200

This is how i would do it, you could also create a simple script for this