Recommended read for all my technically inclined friends and fans of Firefox 3 .
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2331278,00.asp
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Good Night !! Sweet Dreams !!
Nowadays I have cultivated a new habit of listening to some soft romantic songs or some instrumentals before sleeping .However most of the time I end up allowing the songs to go on the whole night as I am either fast asleep or too lazy by that time to shutdown my computer . This led me to search for some way to shutdown my computer at a specified time .And here I am with a simple working solution :
If you use XP ,you need not worry at all .All you have to do is go to the Dos Prompt and type this :
at 23:30 shutdown -s
Here 23:30 is the time at which you want the PC/Laptop to shutdown .
In case of Windows Vista I was facing some problem .As soon as I gave this command I was getting an access denied error ,even though I had logged-in as an administrator .So I figured out a work around .I created a Batch file in which I wrote the same command (To create a batch file all you have to do is open the Notepad,type this command and save it as a batch file *.bat).Then right click on this file and say "Run as administrator" . And you are all set !!!
This can also be used in Office ..in case you want to keep some Test running and want your PC to shutdown at a specified time .
Note1 : In case you want to abort the shutdown you can give this command
at 23:29 shutdown -a .This command will abort the system shutdown .
Note2 : Note that shutdown.exe is in one of the folders (normally C:\Windows\System32) listed in the %PATH% environment variable. Other commands will require the full file path
Note 3: I am sure there must be a better way to do it ,in case there is please do let me know .
If you use XP ,you need not worry at all .All you have to do is go to the Dos Prompt and type this :
at 23:30 shutdown -s
Here 23:30 is the time at which you want the PC/Laptop to shutdown .
In case of Windows Vista I was facing some problem .As soon as I gave this command I was getting an access denied error ,even though I had logged-in as an administrator .So I figured out a work around .I created a Batch file in which I wrote the same command (To create a batch file all you have to do is open the Notepad,type this command and save it as a batch file *.bat).Then right click on this file and say "Run as administrator" . And you are all set !!!
This can also be used in Office ..in case you want to keep some Test running and want your PC to shutdown at a specified time .
Note1 : In case you want to abort the shutdown you can give this command
at 23:29 shutdown -a .This command will abort the system shutdown .
Note2 : Note that shutdown.exe is in one of the folders (normally C:\Windows\System32) listed in the %PATH% environment variable. Other commands will require the full file path
Note 3: I am sure there must be a better way to do it ,in case there is please do let me know .
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