If you download something big in term of size from torrent you can always resume your download at later time but this is not the case if you are downloading from rapidshare or from any similar services. Lately I've been using Rapidshare and Megaupload extensively for downloading purpose. The advantage of using direct download is the estimation time of download completion is fairly accurate as compared to torrent which depends solely on the number of uploaders. With the presence of timer we should be able to manipulate our PC to shutdown right after the downloads are completed especially during late night! Enough with the torrent and direct download; let's move on with the implementation of it. It's pretty easy :)
1. Type in "CMD" in Menu > Run. Figure out how much time do you want before the PC will shut itself down. Type in 'shutdown -s -t XXXX'. If you want it to shut down after 20 minutes set it to 1200 (seconds) in XXXX.
2. The following popup should appear before you. If you want to cancel the shutdown timer go into the CMD prompt and type in 'shutdown -a'.
The easiest way to further manipulate the processes of shutdown, restart or logoff of your PC is by typing in "shutdown -i". By doing this the following window will popup and you got a better control of your PC.
p/s: A small step towards shaping a better world by conserving energy ;)
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Jul 22, 2007 at 12:35:46
Hi there,
That was an important piece of information.
Thanks for sharing it. :)
A very nice blog you’ve.
Keep up the good work.
Jul 22, 2007 at 15:09:29
Thanks Sunil :)
Jul 23, 2007 at 06:29:38
Thank you for this post. It very useful! You should keep up this good work!
Aug 30, 2007 at 09:11:16
wah thanks good info to me!
Aug 30, 2007 at 09:13:51
No problemo :D
Sep 18, 2008 at 04:21:59
hi admin…
first I would like to really appreciate your post … it had good information… but I would like to add some more information….
There are some free utilities available to do exactly the same thing ( I mean shutdown ) but they have many more inbuilt functions like reminders force shut downs etc… you can easily find them by googling …
here I do like to mention some of them..
http://www.konradp.com/products/auto_shutdown/
http://www.brothersoft.com/force-shutdown-82565.html
http://www.brothersoft.com/turnoff-master-80241.html
http://www.brothersoft.com/shutdowntimer-80253.html
I hope it helps.. thanks
rohit
Sep 18, 2008 at 17:40:57
Thank Rohit for the additions. It will definitely come handy to people who look for alternative way of shutting down their computers.