You may encounter a situation to Shutdown your system without your permission. Maybe your computer is processing a task or you may be downloading a file from the internet, but you don’t want to wait till the work done. Then in that situation, it would be better if set, shutdown timer in windows to automatically Shutdown your system without your involvement.
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| How To Set Shutdown Timer In Windows 7/8/10? |
With many ways to Shutdown Windows involves normal Shutdown, creating shutdown shortcut on desktop, Shutdown shortcut on taskbar etc. But these includes use of human interference to do that. But Scheduling to Shutdown a system can result automatic shutdown of windows without interference with the user. There are many ways to set shutdown timers in windows.
Setting Shutdown Timer in Windows:
Right Click on the start button. Select command prompt or Click start type CMD in the search box.
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| How To Set Shutdown Timer In Windows 7/8/10? |
Click on the command prompt. Command Prompt dialog box appears.
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| How To Set Shutdown Timer In Windows 7/8/10? |
Type shutdown /s /t 3600 and press enter.
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| How To Set Shutdown Timer In Windows 7/8/10? |
Here 3600 is the number of seconds later the windows shutdown. That is, 60 sec * 60 sec = 3600 sec = 1 hour.
Windows will display message, you’re about to be signed out that is windows will Shutdown in 60 minutes.
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| How To Set Shutdown Timer In Windows 7/8/10? |
Now exactly after 1 hour, windows will Shutdown automatically. This is how you can set shutdown timer in windows to shutdown automatically.
You can even abort this automatic shutdown timer
Aborting Automatic Shutdown timer in windows:
In the command prompt type shutdown /a and press enter.
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| How To Set Shutdown Timer In Windows 7/8/10? |
Windows will display the message, Logoff is cancelled that is the scheduled shutdown has been cancelled.
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| How To Set Shutdown Timer In Windows 7/8/10? |
This is how the shutdown timer can be set for auto logoff and even this timer can be aborted in the middle.
Do you need to Steps record the problems and troubleshoot them while you use this automatic shutdown in Windows. Then read our article on the use of steps recorder to reproduce problems on windows 10/8/7.
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