Auto Shutdown 1.1 Released

Hi,

Auto Shutdown 1.1 is released. In this version two minor changes are done:

1- Warning timeout is customizable. Now you can change how long before scheduled shutdown time warning window pops up. The default value is 1 minute before shutdown time. Now you can change it from 1 to 10 minutes. Please take note that if you set warning timeout longer than your scheduled action time, you will get an error message. For example, suppose you set Auto Shutdown to restart your computer in 5 minutes. If you set warning timeout to 10, then you will get an error. Warning timeout should be always smaller than scheduled action time.
To change warning timeout, you can click “Advanced…” button on the lower left corner of Auto Shutdown Options window.

2- Now in Windows 7, Warning timeout shows a progress bar in task manager while it is waiting for you. This feature is available only on Windows 7, not older versions of Windows.

To download the latest version of Auto Shutdown, please refer to Auto Shutdown page.

Entru Inc. publishes Auto Shutdown

Entru Inc. publishes a proprietary version of Auto Shutdown based on my open-source Auto Shutdown.

The initial version published by Entru Inc. is almost the same as my open-source Auto Shutdown.

Auto Shutdown is open-source now!

Today, I published source code of Auto Shutdown utility under Creative Commons license. You can download it from here.

Along with this source, I published source code of two components used in Auto Shutdown; AliShellNotifyIcon, and AliLinkLabel. These two components are published under a more general license. You can find them in Components folder of Auto Shutdown source code.

Source codes are developed in Delphi 7, but is also tested in Delphi 2009. I might move the source files to SourceForge later.

I’m planning to publish more source codes, and components later.

Auto Shutdown

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.
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