There is no software to install and no tweaks to be made. An automatic shutdown is inbuilt into Windows and ready to be explored. Let’s check out how we can set a timer for automatic shutdown.

Right click on the desktop. Select New → Shortcut.
A New Shortcut dialog box will appear.
In the location box, this is how you will enter the details: shutdown.exe is for calling the shutdown executable. –s is the command for shutdown. –f is for performing a forced shutdown. If an application stops responding when shutting down, this command will force shut it. Using this command is not compulsory, but recommended. And next, the –t command is for specifying the time the shutdown will take place. After you put the –t command give a space and then enter the time in seconds. So in the above example, the computer will be shut down in 6 hours. Let’s put the whole

command in one line:shutdown.exe -s -f -t seconds

Click next and the shortcut will be created on the desktop. Give it a name and click it whenever you wish to initiate an automatic shutdown. If you want to change the time, right click on the shortcut, select properties and change the time from the dialog that opens.
Tip: This command can also be initiated from the Run box or CMD.

Tip 2: If you want to display a message that displays when the countdown is in progress, you can append a –c command with a message attached. Like this:
-c “Computer is shutting down”

Thank you all for giving lot of info

HTH,

“/r” = reboot
“/t” = timer

c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 600 -f -m \\%computername% -d P:0:0 -c “Planned system reboot”

idiots……

Matti

To work around this problem, you can add an entry to the SYSTEM account’s registry indicating that you have accepted the EULA. Go to the key at HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Sysinternals\PsShutdown. Create it if it doesn’t exist (it should be there if you tried running it once before). Add a new DWORD value called EulaAccepted. Set this value to 1. Now you can schedule the task to run as described above and it will work.

PSShutdown DOES work as a scheduled task with no user logged in.

There is a difference, read and test before posting as to avoid confusion here.

on winxp this tool exists but uses dashes ie
shutdown -t 00 -r

if your looking to startup a box, check your bios for auto power on scheduling. or use a scheduleld wake on lan from another system.

I have server one is win2k3. I finished setting inthe scheduled task to shutdown the machine at 8.30 pm. Actually now what i want is my server win2k3 should switched on in the morning 8 am without manually switched on.

automatically how to make it ?

I tried but i could not succeed

Please write and explain simple way

And one comment on scheduled tasks in general:
I like to have anything like this write to a log file so I see the record of what the command(s) did. Not a big fan of mysteries when it comes to server admin.

You need to write a small batch file. To stop service use net stop service command. May be something as follows will do the trick:

net stop "service name"
net stop "service name2"
at 1:00am c:\admutils\psshutdown.exe -s -f -c -t 

HTH