The program allows you to leave your computer on, and can be schedule to shut down with a timer, for example, you can set it to shut down 1 hour later or at 2am. Besides shut down, you can also Hibernate, Sleep, Log off, Reboot.
If you like to listen to music from your computer while lying in bed comfortably until sleep. But most of time, you don't want your computer to be on all the time during your sleep, you only want it be on for first few hours. So here you need a automated way to shutdown your computer.
The software support minimize to the system tray to save the screen space. Click on the minimized button in the window title bar will hide the main window and make it available to be restored from the system tray. To windows 7 users, make sure you have turn on system tray display to make it visible.
When the software find it's less than 30 seconds to the shutdown point, it will restore itself to the center of the screen to remind you of the shutdown to avoid the unintended action. And you can cancel the shutdown process but click "Disable Shutdown" button.
Command line paramter:
[-action poweroff | hibernate | sleep | logoff | reboot] [-t "minutes to shutdown"] [-help|-h]
Example: to hibernate 30 minutes later please run:
autoshutdown -action hibernate -t 30
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