Re: Scheduled task

From: Mike Brearley (nospam_at_spam.com)
Date: 12/14/04


Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:24:21 -0500


'shutdown -s' will shutdown your local system in 30 seconds, so if you
create a scheduled task to run that command, it should work.

The only thing you may need to do is to give it the username/password of an
administrator of the computer under the run as.

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Posted 'as is'.  If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they 
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my 
lack of caffeine.
Mike Brearley
"myha" <miha.petkovsek@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:cpmvjq$rmj$1@planja.arnes.si...
> Hi!
>
> I'm having problem with scheduling my computer to shut down at the 
> specific time.... I use C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe and i give the 
> time when computer should shut down but nothing happens... Am I doing smth 
> wrong or it doesn't work this way?
> 


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