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09-30-2003, 11:37 PM
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Sheduled Shut Down
Is there any way to make my computer shut down automaticaly when I'm not there? I want to let AVG scan for viruses at 11:00 PM but I don't want my computer on all night.
Here are my system specs ASUS A7V333 Mother Board AMD Athlon 1.8ghz CPU 512mb 333mhz DDR RAM 60 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive 6GB 5200 RPM Hard Drive GeForce 4 ti 4800se 128mb Graphics Card Plextor 24/10/40x CDRW Acer 40x CD-ROM Windows XP Home Edition Cable Modem
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09-30-2003, 11:53 PM
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Go into your control panel and click on power options. I don't know if it lets you assign a time for your computer to shut down, but it does allow a shut down after a certain amount of idle time. You may also have power options in your BIOS.
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09-30-2003, 11:58 PM
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It lets me set it to shut down after a certain amount of time and I had that set but I was getting annoyed by it shutting down in the middle of the day right before I was bout to start using it.
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10-01-2003, 03:05 PM
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Try increasing the time of shutdown by one hour each day until you reach a point where it is not shutting down on you when you are using it and yet it is not on all night.
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10-01-2003, 03:11 PM
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If you know a programming language ex VB you could make an app to do it.
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10-01-2003, 03:14 PM
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Maybe this utility would help:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...shutdown.shtml Make a scheduled task to run this utility, and you are set. |
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10-01-2003, 03:20 PM
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Of course another option is to not shut the computer down at all but just send it into a power down state or hibernate, so it's power consumption is minimal but it is there if you need it.
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10-01-2003, 05:31 PM
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The option in Windows is not to shut it down but to hibernate it. I tried the auto start-up thing on the mother board but it didn't come on this morning.
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