Very simple question

bingo9999

Sorry guys i feel like im wasting a thread here but Ive been lookin around and I cant seem to find a shutdown timer that you can set to turn the computer off when a programe finishes - dick defrag, virus scan etc - I know there are the timed ones I have no idea how long these could run for while Im up in bed and dont want to cut them off midway through!

Any help would be appreciated, even its just telling me that Im stupid and that could never work!

Cheers!

Anti

um, **** good question actually. Tbh i dont think this is built into windows, not that i know of, but i expect to be corrected by one of the uber geeks here

Ruu_Old

The only thing I can think of that would time things would be task scheduler, it comes with Windows.

shayser

Not entirely sure, but this might work:

http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/poweroff/poweroff.htm

irlrobins

Oh nice find. By the look of it, you can set it to shutdown when a process completes. So if you know what process runs for the task, you can set it to shut down when it completes.

Having said that, the process might not exit when it completes the task. It might stay open waiting for user input (i.e. Click the close button). In which case poweroff won't work.

Worth a go anyway.

ifah

you could write a vbscript to run in the background and wake up every few minutes checking whether a certain process has finished or an entry has been written in a log file or some other trigger.
Then invoke the shutdown command after that.

bingo9999

Thanks alot guys! That link looks promising but its a pity about the no close- no shutdown part, most of the things I was thinking of generally have something like that when they done. But cheers it will work for something! Well I would write a vbscript but I might as well write it a note to turn itself off and stick it on the screen! No idea what a vbscript is!

Cheers to all!