Delayed System Shutdown (Simple, No Programs)

In this guide, you will learn how to remotely shutdown your computer. You can use this if you want to go to sleep, but want to continue to run your autobuyer or score sender.

There are 2 ways to run this command. Both ways both work the same way, and really have no difference.

Table of Contents;
I. The 'Run...' Way
II. The 'Command Prompt' Way
III. Adding a Message
IV: Making It a One-Click Batch File
V: Additional Notes
VI: End

The 'Run...' Way​

Okay, first click on Run..., it should be in your start bar.



Then, type in shutdown -s -t #. The # is how many seconds you want it to wait before shutting down. For example, 1 hour = 3600 seconds; 1 1/2 hours = 5400 seconds; etc. here is a great site to convert seconds and minutes or hours.



Then, click "Ok" and then there will be a box, ticking down until your computer will shutdown.



Abort
Set the wrong time?? No longer want a system shutdown?? No problem, just abort the program.

Simply go to the handy dandy 'Run...' again, and type in shutdown -a.



The system shutdown has now been canceled, and the box(with the countdown) should close by itself.

The 'Command Prompt' Way​

Okay, so open up your command prompt(which can be found by Start - All Programs - Accessories - Command Prompt).



Then, just as before, type in shutdown -s -t #, replacing the # with a time in seconds(see above for examples). For my example, I will use 30 minutes.



Then, hit enter on your keyboard. The System Shutdown box should now open, with a countdown from whatever time you entered.



Abort
To cancel the system shutdown, just type shutdown -a in your command prompt.

Adding a Message​

In the System Shutdown box, there is a spot for a message. This isn't all that useful, but it may be helpful if your computer is shared my multiple people(i.e. if someone else might use your computer later and wants to get rid of the System Shutdown, you can let them know how or something).

Remember, this works the same for the Command Prompt and Run, I'm just using the Run... for my example.

Anyways, just put -c "Message" at the end of the code, replacing message with whatever you want. In my example, I used http://www.neofriends.net as my message.



Then hit "Ok" and viola!

Making It a One-Click Batch File​

Always use the same setting?? Want to make it an easy click?? Simple, just save it as a batch file.

Open up notepad and enter in the code you want...for example shutdown -s -t 1800.



Then go to File - Save As and named it whatever you want, but make it end with .bat (save it on desktop for convenience)



Then, simply go to double click the icon, and it will start up for you.

Additional Notes​

If you want to restart your computer instead of shut it down, use -r instead of -s.

To shut down in 30 seconds, do not enter a -t, making your code just shutdown -s.

You can have a maximum of 127 characters in your message.

Add a -f to force programs to shutdown without a warning.

You can use -l to log off, instead of shutting down the whole computer.

-s stands for Shutdown; -a stands for Abort; -r stands for Restart; -f stands for Force; -t stands for Time; -c stands for Comment.

That's It!!
Thanks for reading, hope it helped!!
Guide compiled and made by cackle, specifically for NeoFriends.Net​

 

ok this is slightly off topic, but with the shutdown -a command, will that abort any shutdown? I had a friend who used to have some weird bug or virus that randomly made that shutdown in 30 seconds box appear, command prompt is over my head

 

You could tell him to try it, but it probably won't work since malicious hackers probably use some different shutdown mechanism.
Command prompt and Run are do exactly the same thing, its just that Run only works for 1 command

 

haha well to be fair i think it was some worm that was going around a few years back, its just your post reminded me of the incident so i thought i'd ask. It truely is helpful though because while i dont do the whole autobuying thing on neopets, i do use torrents and if i go out its good that i now have a way to shut down the pc, so thank you!

 

If that box opens up(like in my pics), then yes shutdown -a will work. Run is easier to use as a general person, since you can have saved information...like if you hit the down arrow you see what you previously typed in. But the command prompt is good if you are some leet programmer or something lol.

 

This is so cool. I will defiantly keep this info handy. I have wanted something like this for a long time. Not just for NP. +rep

 

oh yes, i totally forgot to give you rep. for your guide, i'll have to fix that

 

Thanks for the +rep, guys. Glad you liked it.



Edit; also added a way to make it a simple one-click program.

 

This is a helpful guide and it works. Now i can go to one of my tutoring class without having to worry about running back home to shut down my computer. Could i run this on a Mac?

 

I'm not positive(no idea at all really), but I would probably say no since they're completely different Operating Systems.

 

The last few days this has appeared by different people on almost every cheating site 0-o

Btw, does this work on all windows? Vista, ME, xp ect?

 

I've had it here for a month, and it was 100% from me lol. I don't use other cheat sites though so I don't care much.

Anyways, I know it works for XP. I'm not sure for the other 2, however...but try it out, couldn't hurt it...I don't think.

 

Woahhh there, i think you mis enterpritate me, i mean i never heard of this process before then all of a sudden its everyware, no accusation in there of you stealing ect

 

I understood what you meant, was just confirming that it was made by me incase someone else was wondering or something.

Don't worry about it, I didn't take any offense in it.

 

thanks! this will be very helpfull when i want to ab but also want to sleep and not be frozen, lol.