getting office comouters to shutdown

eurotrotter

hi guys
inside in work all the computers are left on once we leave at 5, they stay running till we arrive, bascially there never off.
im wondering is there a setting somewhere to get the computer to shutdown after say 20 miins off lying idling after being logged off?
thanks guys
ed

Macers

eurotrotter wrote:

hi guys
inside in work all the computers are left on once we leave at 5, they stay running till we arrive, bascially there never off.
im wondering is there a setting somewhere to get the computer to shutdown after say 20 miins off lying idling after being logged off?
thanks guys
ed

It's in Power management in where you set your screensaver (in XP - right click on destop choose properties) should give you an option to turn off monitor and hard if computer idle for x time)

My advice would be to set it for 2 hours (to cover lunch breaks etc)

petes

Go to Start=>Control Panel=>Scheduled Tasks

Create a new task and call it shutdown.

In the properties change the run to C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 0

Under the schedule tab set it to run daily at twenty past five.

Ensure the enabled box is ticked.

Heinrich

eurotrotter wrote:

hi guys
inside in work all the computers are left on once we leave at 5, they stay running till we arrive, bascially there never off.
im wondering is there a setting somewhere to get the computer to shutdown after say 20 miins off lying idling after being logged off?
thanks guys
ed

Right click on the desktop

Click on "Properties"

Click on "Power" (nea the bottom)

Type in the values you want

zefer

Think he might be talking about a group policy or something to get all the pc's to do it rather than just 1 or 2.. Is this right OP?

JPA

There's a small program called Switch Off . Works well.

Ruu_Old

JPA wrote:

There's a small program called Switch Off . Works well.

Use that one as well, works fine.