windowsxp/2000 to help you turn off the machine automatically.

After work, everyone will be eager to leave the office, in a hurry sometimes forget to shut down the computer. This is a charge, and dangerous. There are a number of settings we can use to implement Windows automatic shutdown to avoid this problem in the future.

Automatic shutdown is a very useful feature, but Windows itself does not seem to provide this setting directly, so we usually use shutdown software to implement automatic shutdown. So can you not use these extra programs to get Windows 2000/XP to shut down automatically? The answer is yes. You can do this by calling the Shutdown.exe file in the Windows XP system directory, where it is placed in Windows\System32. This file is Windows's own shutdown program that is simply hidden and not very well found.

Here's an example to illustrate how to set the Shutdown.exe command:

If you get off work 17:00 you need the computer at 17:01 to shut down, you can choose "Start → run", enter "at 17:01 shutdown-s", so that to 17:01 points the computer will appear "System Shutdown" dialog box, the default has 30 seconds countdown and prompts you to save the job. If you want to shut down the machine by the countdown, you can enter "shutdown.exe-s-T 3600", which means that 60 minutes after the automatic shutdown, "3600" represents 60 minutes. If you want Windows 2000 to achieve the same effect, you can copy Shutdown.exe to the system directory

Automatic Shutdown Prompt window

Set the automatic shutdown, if you want to cancel, you can enter "Shutdown-a" in the run. Also enter "Shutdown-i", you can open the set up automatic Shutdown dialog box, to set up the automatic shutdown.

Tip: Shutdown.exe parameters, each has a specific purpose, the execution of each will produce a different effect, such as "-S" means to shut down the local computer, "-a" to cancel the shutdown operation, the following list of more parameters, you can use in the Shutdown.exe on demand.

-F: Forcibly shutting down the application

-m \ Computer name: Control remote computer

-I: Displays the graphical user interface, but must be the first option for shutdown

-L: Log off Current user

-r: Shutdown and reboot

-T time: set down shutdown countdown

-C "Message content": Enter the message contents in the Shutdown dialog box (not exceeding 127 characters)