Dec 13, 2010

Set autoshutdown for your Computer

A cool tip to manage your computer shutdown process automatically. You can set your computer to shutting down at any convenient time (daily, weekly and when my computer starts) when you are not there.

A simple shutdown command set your computer to close all running applications and shutdown properly after predefined time. This tip is very useful to save energy and time. After the execution of command, a small window will appear to count time of system shutdown. You can cancel this auto shutdown process using same command.

Follow the given steps to schedule the shut down process:

1) Click on start button.
2) Go to Run option.
3) Type shutdown.exe -s -t yyyy then press ok button.

Here yyyy mean time in second, for example if you want your computer will shutdown automatically after 5 minute then the command will be shutdown.exe -s -t 300.

But after execution you can cancel this command any time, simple type
shutdown.exe -a in Run option and Press ok. Your auto shutdown command will remove and your computer will work properly

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Shutdown XP Faster

Like previous versions of windows, it takes long time to restart or
shutdown windows XP when the "Exit Windows" sound is enabled.
To solve this problem you must disable this useless sound.

· Click Start button.
· Go to settings > Control Panel > Sound, Speech and Audio
devices> Sounds and AudioDevices > Sounds.
· Then under program events and windows menu click on
"Exit Windows" sub-menu and highlight it. Now from sounds
you can select, choose "none" and then click Apply and OK.

Now you should see some improvements when shutting down
your system.

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Create Shortcut to shutdown computer - Cool Computer Trick

Leaving your computer in a hurry want to shutdown it but reallly it takes a lot of time first go to start menu then click on shutdown then click ok on shutdown dialog box. But now you can shutdown your system in 1 click. Create shortcut os shutdown on your desktop, To create shortcut follow these steps:


1) Go to desktop, Right click on it.
2) Select New >> Shortcut.
3) In new shortcut wizard window type "shutdown -s -t 01" in location.


4) Click Next.
5) Give any name to shortcut, I gave shutdown.
6) Click OK.

Its done.
now you can shutdown your computer by clicking on that shortcut.

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Dec 10, 2010

Stop Restart OR Shutdown Process

In Window XP, Sometimes it gives an autorestarting warning with no option for postpone on it, Window vista gives that warning with postpone option. Sometimes its very annoying, If you use XP and doing some urgent work and you dont have enough time and at that moment, If it gave that autorestart warning, then you can do nothing except wait for it to restart but now here is one solution, By using this you can abort that restarting process. Just follow these steps:

1) Open command Prompt.
2) Type shutdown -a.

It will abort shutdown process. You can also abort it by simply writing shutdown -a in run window.

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