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Auto Shutdown
Posted on March 13th, 2009 34 comments
Auto Shutdown Snapshot
Auto Shutdown helps you to schedule Windows shut down and define global keyboard shortcuts for different shut down actions (i.e. turn off, restart, log off, stand by & hibernate).
Different types of time scheduling is supported in Auto Shutdown. You can schedule Windows to turn off at a specific time and date, at specific times on specific week days, after a specific period of time from now, or at a specific time after system reboot.
Features:
- Auto Shutdown is open-source, and does NOT install any Ad ware or Spyware.
- Auto Shutdown lets you define different types of time schedules.
- Auto Shutdown lets you define different keyboard shortcuts for different type of shut down actions.
- Auto Shutdown works with all versions of Windows (i.e. Windows 98 up to Windows Vista).
Considerations:
- In Windows 2000, XP, and Vista you need to have proper administrative permission to shutdown Windows.
Versions:
- 1.1.0(50) : (2010/04/25)
- Added customizable warning timeout.
- Added taskbar progress bar for warning message in Windows 7.
- 1.0.0(46) : (2010/04/02)
- Bug in weekly scheduler is fixed (See Liza’s comment below).
- Some minor GUI updates, and bug fixes are done.
- 1.0.0(42) : (2009/12/01)
- GUI is updated.
- Some minor bugs are fixed.
- 0.8.8(23) : (2009/10/29)
- Vista & Windows 7 support is added.
- If Hibernate or Stand by are not available, a balloon hint will be shown instead of an interrupting dialog box.
- 0.8.7(15) : (2007/01/07)
System Requirements:
- Windows 9x, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7.
- 1 MB free space on hard disk.
- Consumes about 5 MB of system memory.
Video Tutorial:
Auto Shutdown Video Tutorial done by DownloadTube.com.
License:
Auto Shutdown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.Downloads:
Download Auto Shutdown source code
Download Auto Shutdown Installer
28 responses to “Auto Shutdown”
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Good tool.
1. Can you enhance it by making it as a service?
2. Give the ability for users to postpone the shutdown for desired time like 30mins, 1hr, 2hrs etc. Then prompt again 10mins before desired time expires and countdown should start. If no response within that time shutdown should begin.
Or can you share your source code?
Thanks
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Kris,
- Making it to run as a service doesn’t add any significant advantage to Auto Shutdown.
- I cannot add any new feature to it for now, cuz I am busy with some other projects.
- I’m gonna migrate the source code from Delphi 7 to Delphi 2009 whenever I find some free time. Then I may publish it as an open-source software.
Regards
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Program is a bit worthless actually. When a restart is activated, you cannot log out of the system. Therefore you must run this program while being logged in, hence the request above for making it a Service or at least a Scheduled task.
Unless I am missing something, this would be a huge oversight.
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Venom; it depends on your usage scenario. This program starts when a user is logged into system. It is an interactive process, not a service which has no interaction with user.
If you really need to schedule shutdown or restart even before logging into any account; you can use Windows Task Scheduler and define a new task which runs Shutdown.exe.
This will provide you the mechanism to shutdown or restart the system either a user is logged in or not. -
حسن نوتراش January 6th, 2010 at 19:19
درود.
دستت درد نکنه برنامه بسیار کم حجم و خوبیه.
همشه پیروز باشی.
بدرود -
خیلی ممنون، حسن جان
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jjg9266 February 27th, 2010 at 17:23
Thank you, This is very usuful
I am using this program to solve the computer addiction.
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Bertus63 March 27th, 2010 at 14:12
Thanks for this great program.
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I have been using Auto-shutdown for awhile now and I love it. Recently it stopped working, though. For some reason it seems to be disabled by default when I start up each day. Any idea why this would happen or how to fix?
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Hi Lis,
To be able to investigate your problem, I need to reproduce it on my machine. My email address is available in About page of Auto Shutdown; can you send me an email, and give me these information:
1- Version of Windows that you use (e.g. XP, Vista, 7, etc.).
2- Exact scheduling that you are using in Auto Shutdown.
3- One or a few ate and time in which you saw Auto Shutdown running in disabled mode.Thank you.
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Thanks to Lisa’s bug report, I fixed a bug in weekly scheduler, and done a few minor improvements on Auto Shutdown in version 1.0.0.46.
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Why I can not choose from A.M. and P.M.
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Gianni, Can you send me a screenshot of your Auto Shutdown running, and you not being able to set AM/PM?
To take a screenshot of your Auto Shutdown, you can press Alt+PrtScn keys while Auto Shutdown window is open and active. Then go to Paint program (Start Menu -> Accessories) and select Paste from Edit menu. It will create a screenshot of Auto Shutdown in Paint. Now you can save this by selecting Save from File menu. Select JPEG or PNG fromat so that the image size won’t be too big.
Thanks
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I do not have your e-mail to send to you the screenshot.
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@Gianni, my email address is in the About tab of Auto Shutdown as a link. Just click on my name on the about page. It is also available in the about page of this website.
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Ali, it works great now, thanks!!
Here is a suggestion for a future version: it would be good to be able to configure the amount of time after the warning that you have to finish and close down programs before shutdown takes effect. One minute is not enough time for me sometimes.
Again, thanks for a great program!
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@Lis, customizable warning timeout is added in version 1.1.
Regards
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SmartedPAnda April 29th, 2010 at 01:25
Could you make a sleep option in windows 7?
I understand there’s a hibernation option, but sleep is quicker.Thank You.
Love your product, keep doing what you’re doing.
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@SmartedPAnda, if Sleep mode is enabled in your Windows 7, then selecting Standby in Auto Shutdown as the selected action should put your system in Sleep mode.
Have you tried that?
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Sometimes when I start up my computer I get this error:
Access violation at address 004D3119 in module ‘AutoShutdown.exe’. Read of address 00000038.
It still seems to run ok.
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Oops, I did not see the new version released above! Great! I am downloading it now.
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Central Pharmacy May 5th, 2010 at 19:28
Why does it throw up an error message everytime the pc starts up again??
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@Central Pharmacy; Could you please send me more information? I need this info to investigate the case:
1- What version of Auto Shutdown are you using? (You can find version number in About page).
2- What version of Windows are you using? (e.g. XP. Vista, Se7en, etc.).
3- Which scheduling did you choose in Options page?
4- What error message do you receive?You can e-mail me this info so that I can investigate the case, and fix the reported bug. My email address is available in this link.
Regards
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Am or Pm don’t working in windows 7,see my screen.I have choice ,but can’t see.
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g185/joshua1964/Naamloos-7-1.jpg
I like you program,it is great,Thanks.
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@Jashua, It seems something’s wrong with your time settings. Please go to “Control Panel | Region and Language”, then in Formats page, click on “Additional settings..”, then go to Time page, and check what is selected for AM Symbol, and PM Symbol. Also check what is written in Short Time, and Long Time boxes. They must look like hh:mm tt and hh:mm:ss tt. Please notice at tt at the end of the strings.
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Love your product
One thing that really annoys me – if I set the time for like 3AM – it should shutdown the computer for the following day at this time.
i.e. Lets say its currently 12PM and I set 3AM – then it should set the shutdown for 3AM the following day. At the moment, if I set it for 3AM – it won’t activate unless I do it at 12:01AM.
Is it possible to set this up ? i.e. basically, if the time has passed already – do it for the next day ?
Thx
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Hi Andy,
Can you tell me what time scheduling option are you using in Auto Shutdown? We have three types:
1- Scheduling based on the current time (e.g 10 mins from now).
2- Weekly Schedules.
3- Specific date and time.
If you choose specific date and time, it shows you two boxes; one for entering date, and the other for entering time. If you keep date box to today’s date, and set only time field, then it does not work as you expected.
To make it work, you should set date field to tomorrow, and time to whatever you want. This way, it will do the job on the specified date and time.
Regards,
Ali -
It’s good work. Please try to add Option of capturing the desktop before the auto shutdown. It’s included in “AMP WinOFF” (freeware with closed source).
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kris March 25th, 2009 at 22:07