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Posted by : Sassan
Thursday, October 3, 2013
If you're running a Windows 7 machine or any other Windows version , you can make it shutdown at certain time automatically by following these steps :
1 - Go to Start > Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > and click on the Task Scheduler .
2 - On the Action menu , choose Create Basic Task .
3 - In the window that pops up , Type in a title and a description for the task .
4 - Click on Next .
5 - On the Task Trigger screen , for nightly shutdown click on Daily and click Next button .
2 - On the Action menu , choose Create Basic Task .
3 - In the window that pops up , Type in a title and a description for the task .
4 - Click on Next .
5 - On the Task Trigger screen , for nightly shutdown click on Daily and click Next button .
6 - In the next screen , specify the date and time for the shutdown , Next .
7 - On the following choose Start a program and Next .
8 - In the Start a program screen , type " C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe " in the " Program/script ".
9 - In the Add arguments field type /s . Click Next.
10 - Confirm your settings on the Summary screen and click Finish .
7 - On the following choose Start a program and Next .
8 - In the Start a program screen , type " C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe " in the " Program/script ".
9 - In the Add arguments field type /s . Click Next.
10 - Confirm your settings on the Summary screen and click Finish .
There you go ! Now you have set your computer to autoshut down .