Why we need this Automatic Shutdown in Windows?
Welcoming to you another valuable article, in here we are talking about automating the Windows shutdown easily for your convenient. You can do this in your windows computer without any third-party tools. This can be benefited to you in many aspects such as when you need to schedule a shut down on a late-night downloading process or when you have run a heavy installation and you need to go out for something, and you need to shut down your computer after specific period of time.
Using this way, you can command to your computer to shutdown itself on a
specific time and date in future. By learning this simple trick, you can save
some of your precious time, your electricity and also your components lifespan,
last but not least you can have your mind in peace. So, let’s get started.
Step by Step Guide to Automatic Shutdown in Windows
First you need to go to your start menu and search the “Task Scheduler” and open it. Now click on the “Create basic task” option on the Actions tab. It will open the create basic task wizard window. In that window name the task as you as “shut down”. (You can name the task as you prefer). You can give a description if needed. After that hit Next button.
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| Steps to Automatic Shutdown in Windows |
Now choose "One time” option and hit Next button again. Now you can set the Time and Date to execute Itself. Pick a desired time and date for the shutdown and proceed with Next button. If it asks, “what action do you want the task to perform?” Mark start the program and hit Next button.
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| Steps to Automatic Shutdown in Windows |
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| Steps to Automatic Shutdown in Windows |
Now here comes the part that does the Majic. Now type “shutdown” in the program/script box and add the following command /s /f /t 0 in the arguments box and hit Next button again and click on finish button.
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| Steps to Automatic Shutdown in Windows |
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| Steps to Automatic Shutdown in Windows |
Well done, now you have created a task that automatically shut down your PC the desired time you had picked. And that all for the today’s tutorial and hope you have learned something new.
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