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Mar
2010
If you use your computer a lot and you don’t have any time to lose, you should set its operating system to automatically shut down at a specific date and time. The good news here is that you won’t have to buy and use any thirty-party software to perform such an action. In fact, among its tools, Windows 7 and Windows Vista have got a nice Task Scheduler thank to which you can set a lot of activities which will be performed automatically by your Windows!
- Click Start.
- Click All Programs.
- Click Accessories.
- Click System Tools and open Task Scheduler.
- Alternatively, if you can not find it, simply click Start and in the Search field, type: Task Scheduler.
- The Task Scheduler window should appear. Click Create Basic Task located on right pane.
- Click the Next button.
- In the Name field type: Automatic Shutdown (or whatever name you want!).
- Click the Next button.
- Select when you want the system to start the task.
- Click the Next button and choose the date, time and other details abou your task.
- Click the Next button.
- Choose when to start the program and click the Next button.
- Under the Program/Script field, type: Shutdown.
- In the Add Arguments (optional) field, type: –s –f –t 0
- Click the Next button.
- Click the Finish button and you are done!
Tags: trick, Windows 7, Windows Vista
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March 8th, 2010
Thanks for the helpful tip. Quite frankly, I got quite tired of trying to shut down Vista and hitting the hibernation button instead. I really don’t like the change from XP
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