I often see friends asking me online: How to set up my computer to automatically shut down regularly? In fact, in Microsoft's Vista and later systems, there are built-in powerful scheduling tasks, without the help of other tools. You can set your own computer to automatically shut down automatically in a few simple steps.
Of course, the computer system tool software is very powerful now, you can also easily realize the computer automatic timing with the help of third-party system essential tools (such as Rubik's Cube Master, Win8 Optimization Master, etc.) without any settings. Shut down.
Friendly Tip: This case is applicable to Win7, Win8, Win8.1, Vista and XP systems. Manually setting the timed shutdown does not support XP system.
Through the "Task Scheduler" implementation:
1, in the Start menu, all programs --> System Tools --> Task Scheduler, click “ Task Scheduler & rdquo; open the service .
2. In the open "Task Scheduler", in the list of operations on the right, click Open “Create Basic Tasks”.
3. In the Create Basic Task Wizard dialog box, create a basic task, enter the task name, description, and then click Next. In this example, the task is named: Timed Shutdown.
4. In the task trigger step, select the task trigger mechanism: just like the alarm clock, you can choose the timed shutdown task to start every day, or press the point every week, or just execute it. once. In this case, you select "One time", that is to say, after the shutdown of the scheduled shutdown task, the task will be invalid.
5. Set the time for timing shutdown. For example, if you want your computer to shut down at 7 o'clock in the afternoon, adjust the time to 19:00 and click Next.
6. After setting the time, you need to start selecting the action to be executed by the task. Because we need a timed shutdown, so here we need to select “start the program”. If you want your computer to send emails at regular intervals, or to display messages at regular intervals, you can choose the other two separately.
7. Because the Windows system shutdown command is executed by Shutdown.exe, we need to select the Shutdown.exe program to execute the shutdown command when selecting the startup program. On Windows systems, the program is located in the WindowsSystem32 folder on the system disk.
Important Reminder: Remember to add the parameter “-s” in the Add Parameter input box to turn off the local computer. In addition, if you enter the parameter “-r”, it means shut down and restart the computer.
8. After setting all the content, you can see the shutdown task that the computer plans to perform. As shown in the figure below, click Finish to complete.
Shutdown & rdquo; tools, easy to achieve automatic timing shutdown, restart, logout and other operations.
Open the Rubik's Cube Master's Timed Shutdown Widget to set the time for automatic shutdown.
2, open "timed shutdown", you can select the command that needs to be automatically executed as shown in the figure. Rubik's Timed Shutdown Tool provides various commands such as shutdown, restart, logout, sleep, hibernation, etc. You can choose according to your needs.
3. In the Rubik's Cube, when setting the timed shutdown, you can choose according to the repeat mode and time type you need. Such as single execution, repeated execution, automatic shutdown after 50 minutes of countdown.
Notes
If you use the Rubik's Cube Master to set the automatic shutdown, remember that you cannot exit the Rubik's Cube before shutting down.
When WIndows comes with a task shutdown, remember not to forget the parameter <;s” indicates shutdown, you need to fill out.