Set sleep timer on your Windows XP using Auto Shutdown
Usually I download lot of stuff from internet, sometimes when I want to go to bed, it says 1hour remaining. I would be in a confusion state whether to sleep & run my PC all night or wait till it completes or pause downloading & shutdown the PC. I wished if a sleep timer functionality like in TV implemented for PCs.
Though this functionality doen’t comes with Windows XP, I found a freeware which simply does that. Auto Shutdown is a freeware with which you can set sleep time & it automatically shuts down the PC at that time! This really filled my requirement, depending on download I can set a time to shutdown. When I start my PC again, I can see completed download. The sleep timer was useful for me because of downloads, you might have different requirements to set sleep timer. If you can estimate completeion time for any process running on your PC, instead of sitting in front of it until it ends, just set sleep timer.
In case downloading, several download managers like Free Download Manager comes with an option to shutdown computer after completion of downloads. For all other cases you can get Auto Shutdown at Rabid Software.
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Thank you for this! this is a constant struggle that my household deals with. and with energy efficiency being bannered across all the land…it’s a great tool.
Thank you so much! This is just what I was looking for. I like to fall asleep to Buddhist talks, but I don’t like leaving my PC on all night long. Doing so not only heats up the room, but also wastes energy. With my PC being near my bed, it’s much easier to have the track playing in WMP than putting it on iPod/Zune. So if this sleep timer works, it’s really the perfect setup!
Cool! Thanks!
I wanted to post because actually there is a way to make windows XP activate a built-in sleep timer using shortcuts and shutdown commands. All that one has to do is :
Create a new shortcut (right-click on desktop, select new, shortcut).
In the Location text box type:
shutdown.exe -s -t 600 -c “Sleep Timer shutdown in 10 minutes”
In the above line -s will shutdown the computer, -t starts the timer, 600 is the number of seconds before shutdown one would adjust this to meet their needs for instance 3600 seconds equals one hour, and -c begins custom message displayed in shutdown window (message must be in “”).
name shortcut anything, maybe something like sleep timer.
Adjust timer to suit your needs
this works in XP, Vista and I think 7
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