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Auto Shutdown
Posted on March 13th, 2009 12 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:
- 1.0.0(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
7 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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kris March 25th, 2009 at 22:07