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8 FREE TOOLS FOR SCHEDULING WINDOWS TO SHUTDOWN, HIBERNATE, SLEEP OR RESTART
HAL9000 Updated 11 months ago Software 3 Comments
Sometimes when you’re using your computer, you might have to leave it alone to
complete a task before shutting it down or putting it to sleep. A lot of modern
software that performs time consuming tasks such as downloading or encoding will
include some form of an option to shut down or sleep the computer once it’s
finished. Many tools don’t give you that option though and the computer has to
be left on until you come back to it.
In Windows, you can use the built in tool shutdown.exe from command prompt or a
batch script to log off, shutdown, restart, or set a timeout for shutdown to xx
seconds. However, many users are not comfortable using the command prompt.
Another option is to use the Windows Task Scheduler to do it and although not
that difficult to set up, it’s not exactly a fast and efficient way to go for
the average user.
It can be a hassle to go through learning to schedule tasks and use the shutdown
tool if you only want to perform a simple shutdown now and again or require some
extra features. Here we have eight free tools that can perform simple shut down,
reboot, or sleep operations, and can also be a bit more advanced if you require
it.
1. Wise Auto Shutdown
Wise software is perhaps better known for its disk/registry cleaners and data
recovery tool. However, Auto Shutdown is a program that’s easy and
straightforward to use while having enough functionality to satisfy most users.
It offers to perform the task of shut down, restart, log off, hibernate, sleep,
or lock the computer.
Any of these tasks can be configured for a specific date and time, in xx hours
and minutes, at a set time on a daily basis, or when the computer has been idle
for a period of time. You can also tell it to remind you via a popup 5 minutes
before a task is due to be run. A couple of menu options in the tray icon can
immediately restart or shutdown the computer. A portable version is available
from the main downloads page.
Download Wise Auto Shutdown
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2. DShutdown
The user interface of DShutdown might seem a little daunting because virtually
everything it can do is shown in the main window. However, once you know what
action to do and how to trigger it, most of the other visible options won’t be
required. DShutdown has a number of actions, including log off, shutdown,
reboot, sleep, lock, reboot and restart apps, disable LAN adapters, wake up, and
open/close a program.
What to do to cause one of the above actions include countdown or date/time
timers (including an AND button to trigger all three conditions), user
inactivity monitor, screen pixel color change, window close monitor, process
closed timer, various settings for network activity, CPU usage monitor, or shut
down if a remote PC goes offline.
A powerful feature for administration purposes is the ability to shut down
remote computers. You can do this while running DShutdown on both computers or
running the included RDShutdown server side tool. Alternatively, you can also
use the Serverless mode by using a remote user’s name and password instead of
running the tool. There’s also several command line options available. DShutdown
is portable.
Download DShutdown
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3. AMP WinOFF
The WinOFF interface has a lot of options on view at once which makes it look
more complicated to use than it actually is. You can create more advanced
profiles which can have multi-conditional behavior meaning at least one or all
conditions must be met for the computer to perform the shutdown type. This can
be restart, power off, close/lock session, sleep, hibernate, and an admin
restart or shutdown.
One or multiple conditions can be chosen to trigger the shutdown action. You can
choose from date and time, countdown timer (interval), lack of user activity,
low/average CPU load, or when the upload/download/combined network transfer
speed for a chosen adapter has dropped for a period of time. You can also
execute a program or take a screen shot before shutdown and lock the session
from other users.
Advanced administrative options can shutdown a remote computer and also enable
anti-tamper protection which can auto restart the program or shutdown the system
if the process is terminated.
Download AMP WinOFF
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4. SleepTimer Ultimate
On the face of it, SleepTimer Ultimate is an easy to use program and you can set
up a simple timer or schedule without any trouble. The timer or action can be
set to log off, restart, shut down, power off, lock, standby, run a program,
stop multimedia playback, and Wake-On-LAN.
There’s also a number of things you can do to trigger the action. These include
immediately perform the action, at a specific date/time, with a countdown timer,
with an idle timer, with a window caption, on CPU load, on a schedule, or on a
network traffic speed drop. Just use the dropdown menus, define the action
settings, and press Start Countdown.
If you want more control, there are dozens of settings in File > Preferences.
These range from forcing programs to close or closing the CD ROM tray to auto
running a schedule on system startup, playing sounds, or showing on screen
displays. There’s also the ability to run SleepTimer Ultimate from the Command
Line or scripts. Help for that and an option to create a simple timed desktop
shortcut are in the Help menu.
Download SleepTimer Ultimate
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5. Shutter Lite
While Shutter Lite is free and feature limited compared to the Pro version, it
still allows you to set up a maximum of five presets, events, and actions. The
usual shutdown type actions are included along with monitor on/off, screensaver,
screenshot, mute/unmute, alarm, text message, play a sound, run a program, open
a file, close window, and kill process. Both portable and installer versions of
Shutter Lite are available.
There’s also some useful events to trigger those actions, like CPU usage,
network usage, hard disk usage, user inactivity, battery/power state, window
activity, process activity, ping stops, file size, and laptop lid state.
Standard countdown, schedule, and timed event are also available. Click in the
add action or add event panes to add what you want. A couple of other useful
features are a web interface and optional password protection.
Download Shutter Lite
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6. Airytec Switch Off
Switch Off is primarily used and designed for timed shutdowns. But it’s also
capable of more advanced functions such as applying an action after a period of
CPU inactivity and also user input inactivity. You can also ask it to perform an
action on user login or computer startup, the other schedules are daily, weekly,
once, or countdown. When the schedule is triggered, Switch Off runs an action.
An action can be one of shutdown, restart, log off, sleep, lock, close any
dial-up or VPN connections, or run a batch script of your choice. For quick
access, from the right click tray menu, every action (restart, run script, etc)
can be easily set up to execute after a set period of time, on a countdown
timer, or after the computer has been idle. Note that some schedules are only
available if you install Switch Off rather than use the portable version.
Download Airytec Switch Off
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7. TimeComX Basic
The free version of TimeComX is missing the parallel tasks, working while logged
out and remote control functions but it’s still able to handle standard and some
advanced tasks. In its simpler form, you can just set up a standard countdown
timer, daily timed, or weekly event to perform a task of either restart,
shutdown, log off, sleep/wake-up, lock or turn off the display, end a process,
play audio, or launch a file/URL.
For more advanced usage, there is an Activity event Monitor where you can set up
monitoring of CPU, memory, disk, network, keyboard/mouse, and a running or not
running process. When the threshold is triggered for the given period, the task
will be executed. You can also set up multiple profiles, take a screenshot
before the shutdown event, and password protect the program from other users.
Download TimeComX Basic
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8. Mz Shutdown Scheduler
If you want something a bit less advanced and a bit more basic than some of the
options above, Mz Shutdown could be a useful option. It only has four event
options to run, which are shutdown, restart, hibernate, and log off.
There are a few more functions to trigger the shutdown event. They are upon a
program close, on low CPU usage, after xx minutes, or at a specified date and
time. There is also a low RAM trigger although it’s probably not that useful on
today’s computers. There’s also a few options that will run before the shutdown
event, like playing a message/sound or running a program.
Download MzShutdown Scheduler
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3 COMMENTS - WRITE A COMMENT
1. jorgex3 14 years ago
oh my cat, yesturday i was looking for something like this and found
HandyTweakers, but this is a lot better. thanks ray
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* Ggmal 10 months ago
> Ray said: “yesturday i was looking for something like this and found
HandyTweakers, but this is a lot better”.
I realise my reply is 13 years too late, but which program from the list
above were you referring to when you said “this” is a lot better?
Thanks.
Reply
2. IanG 14 years ago
Nice little app,and IRC remote usage is a bonus.
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