Passing along some geek-dom
Jan. 11th, 2010 11:05 amA friend was faced with an interesting problem. They tend to fall asleep listening to music on their Windows laptop, but hated leaving their machine on while they slept. (rundown batteries/higher power bill/etc...) They wanted an elegant way of shutting down at a certain time each night - with the ability to override if they are still up.
I suggested they use Windows Task Manager -- after the blank stare, I went in search of the best way to explain it. This blogger did the work for me, and did it well so I'm sharing:
How to Automatically Shutdown your Vista machine
How to Automatically Shutdown your XP machine
I suggested they use Windows Task Manager -- after the blank stare, I went in search of the best way to explain it. This blogger did the work for me, and did it well so I'm sharing:
How to Automatically Shutdown your Vista machine
How to Automatically Shutdown your XP machine