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A program for scheduling system shutdown?

May 29, 2005 5:57AM PDT

Is there a program I can download that lets me schedule my system for a shutdown at a certain time?

or is there a program in WindowsXP that does this, that I dont know about?

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This used to work
May 29, 2005 6:35AM PDT

for W9X/ME and I don't think it would be any different for XP:

Create a new shortcut on the desktop with the following information:

For a shortcut to SHUT DOWN Windows:
C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL32.EXE user,exitwindows

However, the path would now be
C:\Windows\System32\Rundll32.exe user,exit windows

Now run Task Scheduler and point it to that shortcut for a specific time....

TONI

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Even easier in XP than Toni says.
May 29, 2005 4:28PM PDT
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(NT) (NT) How cool....thanks
May 29, 2005 8:36PM PDT