Shut Down

[Alan Chan]

Dear Sir/Madam,

Is there anyway under Windows XP to call the scheduler to shut down the
computer by specifying at say 3:00am to shut down? I try to use the power
saving but not working due to a program continuously accessing network.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Alan Chan

[Martin]

"Alan Chan" > wrote in message
...
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> Is there anyway under Windows XP to call the scheduler to shut down the
> computer by specifying at say 3:00am to shut down? I try to use the power
> saving but not working due to a program continuously accessing network.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Alan Chan
>
>

With Windows XP Pro there is the command shutdown.exe which can be called by
task scheduler to shutdown or restart your pc.
I believe that XP Home doesn't have this command as 'standard'.

If you have XP Pro open a Command Prompt and type

shutdown /?

for usage and syntax.

If you have XP Home and the shutdown command is not available then there's
plenty of third party utilities - PSTools freeware from
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml works ok.

HTH.
Martin.