Set vista to shutdown

Just move forward. We are going to look at one task here and not all the extra stuff in Task Scheduler. In the Actions column on the right, click Create Basic Task ….

The following screen is the Action screen. Double-click the Task Name if you need to work with the settings. A window pops up telling us that Windows will shut down in less than a minute. You can click on the Close button but that will just close that window and Windows itself will continue to shut down.

It lists the choices of how you want to run the shutdown. There you have it. Now you can automatically shutdown your Vista computer. Cool tips man! I have a habit of putting the music on in my pc until I get to sleep, this would definitely help me shutdown my computer without me getting up from bed. Thanks for sharing. Hey i have an old xp computer ant want to make it a client of my newer vista home premium computer.

Good but tell me one thing. Microsoft sure makes it hard to do simple things. And when you learn it in one OS, they change it in the next OS just out of spite! Or at least it feels like that to me.

Thanks for the comment. I had a hard time finding how to change Vistas shutdown button, thats why I put up this oldblog. Glad it has help you. Do you happen to know how to change the button on the main screen that shows all the accounts when the screen is locked? I don't want it to automatically shutdown because my son keeps hitting it.

I'd rather it sleep by default. Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I've used the shutdown command to ensure the computer gets turned off at a certain time in XP, but I just wanted to set my own computer to shut down after accidentally booting to Vista Home in order to download a large file while I was at work. I tried shutdown -s -t , which should have set a two and a half hour delay, but it gave me the help screen message.

What is the correct syntax to use the command? A window pops up telling you that Windows will shut down in less than a minute as shown in the figue below.. You can click on the Close button but that will just close that window and Windows itself will continue to shut down! Here is simple steps to simply shutdown your computer after a specified time!! Tried doing this thro Task Scheduler but it wouldn't work. My PC's my TV too and I sometimes fall asleep watching so I can set this up to happen at 2ish in the morning, then when my mains auto switch turns off at the PC will already be shut down.