automatic shut down

[tim1477]

is this possible? i would sooo love to go to bed every night and have a scheduled virus scan lined up, followed by an automatic shut down 20 minutes later.

[TheJackal]

Have you tried doing it through the "scheduled tasks" menu in Windows?

[LiVeWiRe]

Just to add to what TheJackal said regarding using the Scheduled Tasks...

You can choose 'Shutdown.exe' from the
%SystemRoot\System32 folder when it prompts for the program to run/schedule.

The only other thing I can think of is the time on your virus scan may vary so I would leave ample time before scheduling the shutdown.

HTH,
-LW

[TheJackal]

It might be wise to have the virus scan take place at a totally different time like during the day when your at work, rather then right before your scheduled shut down, as LiVeWiRe said, virus scans have been known to take their time.

[ghost2003]

I have a shutdown icon on my desktop. When I made the icon the location I etered was : shutdown.exe -s -t 0
If I go in the icons propreties the target is: %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 0

Just look at your AV's average time and make it shurdown 40-50 minuts after.

[tim1477]

ya really think the extra 45 minutes is nessecary on top of what the virus scan takes?? thanks for the help though i'll had it to scheduled tasks

[TheJackal]

I think 45 minutes is a bit overkill. On my machine a virus scan takes between 10 and 20 minutes.

So if it were me, I would schedule the Virus scan, and then maybe 30 minutes later, schedule it to shut down.

[TheJackal]

Just to clarify, not 30 minutes after the virus scan is finished, but 30 minutes after the virus scan begins, the machine shuts down.

[tim1477]

o ok. ill set all the times thanks for everyones help

[ghost2003]

wait wait wait, if your AV finds a virus and the computer shutsdown whats the point? Unless you set it to automaticly quarantine them so you can check them later.

[TheJackal]

Then why dont you set it to put the computer to sleep rather then shut it right down, so that you can wake it up in the morning and be able to deal with the virus then.

[tim1477]

yeah last night going to bed i thought of how dumb my idea was, having it on a virus scan and then shutting down before i could see the results. ill have to put either on sleep like thejackal said or just have it on auto quarantine like ghost said.

but! the shut down didn't work. to start diagnosing the problem i went into system32 and clicked on shutdown.exe to see what would happen. a box with writting on it flashes very very quickly, and then dissapears. nothign happings besides that. any thoughts?

[tim1477]

bleh nm about it not workin i got it to work