shutdowns when download finishes.
possibly win's scheduler can do. task settings include some checkboxes for: delay for [choose] minutes after inactive. whether the scheduler obeys this setting is something that needs to be tested...

I was looking for the similar stuff. I believe it will help me a lot, as I am working as a lan admin.

thanks

Eventhough there are tons of freewares and 'commmand prompt shutdown calling methods' etc , this program has more features and is more better than any other utility i have ever seen. Very versatile software. you have to see its key features.. really a good and a great portable and compact software.

Many times lately I have wanted a program to shut down my PC after a long download, especially if I want to go to bed! Staying up an hour for a download, when dropping tired is bad for ya! :) This is just what I needed! Thank you!!! You are all great! :)

dudes!

this is a useful program. for example, you can use it to shut your computer down if you are downloading overnight (i do, have off peak and peak download limits)

its not about turning of off, its about turning your computer off when you're not around.

yes you may not use it, doesn't mean no one will.

Err.. Yawn. Especially this time of year, on short budget. home lan for personal use, yep, 4-6 computers usually running, are in cold weather part of the *heating* budget. Keep them on, or freeze. simple.

Amazing what you can do with huge heatsinks to make fans go away. I'm of the 'if you can keep it cool without fans', run it 24/7 school of reliability. the results seem as good or better than those who turn them of when they leave.

(I hate LAN-wide reboots on 2k pro. For that much hassle, I'll go full net-wide power-off and inspect for dust bunnies, it's no more real work, you gotta visit them anyway one way or another.. every time.)

@#32 Uh...why use Brutus to turn it off when you can just do it from the start menu?

This program seems pretty useless to me. For example, if you were downloading something but had to leave and wanted your computer off afterward, you wouldn't know when to set your computer to turn off because as most everyone knows, downloads sometimes take much longer to download than expected.

There are probably other reasons to download this, and it might work for some folks, but personally, I'm not gonna go for this one. Thanks anyway, GAOTD!

Not bad but I am a dedicated user of AutoShutdown Pro which for the money is far more useful!!

The only way to turn on your computer is by pushing the power button. You can, however, put your computer in standby and this software has wake on lan.
Newer computers have a setting in the BIOS that tells the computer to go into S3 when it goes into standby. S3 only uses slightly more power than actually powering off the computer.
So if you want to turn your computer on remotely, you can enable S3 and use the wake on lan.

True, a LAN tool may be useless for personal use. After all you can't use it unless you have a home network. But it's FREE You don't pay a penny. Don't like it? delete it. BYE!

i am unable to install this software.

i get:

Cant initialize Zip: C:\DOCUME~1\sergio\LOCALS~1\Temp\~RTSS000.TMP\RSHUT.ZIP

can anyone help ?

Hempman: Please favor us with your benificence and the specifics of your expertise in accomplishing what we mere mortals cannot without assistance. Professionals do not ridicule their readers or audience. You're probably a joy to work for or with.

Seems to be ok, I have been using Brutus, Brutus puts a shortcut on yous desktop or in quicklauch, and with one click will log off, shut down, or restart. With this program you have to bring up a menu then make you selection. I suppose if you have several computers this would be a handy tool. The other features like auto start ect. are really of no use to me. In my case with only one computer I will just stay with Brutus. It always seemed strange to me in Windows you have to click start to shut down, Brutus eliminates clicking start.

Totally amateur stuff. As SysAdmin of the Franklin Institute Science Museum, I used the admin stuff built in to Win XP Pro. Only amateurs need this.

Even in testing, I found this to actually be MORE difficult to use that the stuff already built in to Windows ever since Win 95.

Great for those too lazy to learn how to use the expensive software they already bought.

(Look out! Here come the cheerleaders and pom pom boys!)

Hi Folks,

To partly answer my own question, Autologon (Sysinternals, Mark Rossinovich, now busy trying to repair the EE) will make the registry tweak to bypass the next, or alternatively all future-until-next-autologon change, signon screens. A very easy-use freeware proggram. Best, This would be nicely in these shutdown programs, dunno which ones have it.

Note that the RS Somnifero program mentioned above (freeware) may be the strongest on general "task scheduling" rather than just shutdown schedules .. dunno, haven't checked, if it uses the XP scheduler or not.

Shalom,
Steven

$14.95 for this? Many freebees out there. Also the Windows Task Schedular does this for free. Give me a break!

These GAOTD emails in my box are becomming an absolute waste of time.

This would be useful if the LAN were not crippled.

Hi Folks,

So far RShutPro seems to work well, only trying it on single user so far, did not know how to find the other computer -- on the install when it showed up a file-browse box for the other computer (it showed shared folders and left me puzzled, so I did this as a one-user download for now.).

On a reboot, I also want to find out how to bypass the splash screen where you choose the sign-on. Since I would like that disabled for an RShutPro reboot, to start loading programs even if I am away (e.g. for remote control ease and email downmail). Probably it is a simple tweak, but would like to do it as an RShutPro option, not sure if is there, or if it could be handled by a key option.

On the notes above the cryptic mention of RS Somnífero is appreciated. It looks like a good freeware Shutdown-TaskManagerScheduler program.

I will also mention freeware Shutter http://www.den4b.com/screenshots.php?project=Shutter
Looks fine and which will be the other one for me to compare.
(Note his CPUMon as well.)

This is actually a pretty significant utility so I thank GAOTD for choosing a good program in the genre (despite the lack of location and minimal English) and spurring us to compare notes.

Shalom,
Steven

i dont need this..

Doesn't windows already do this for you?

1. Open Command Prompt
2. Type "shutdown"
3. Self-service

Hm... I used this program back when it was built-in with Windows and accessible via a simple "shutdown -i" command. Oh wait, it's still there...

# 13 & # 15. Yes it does have WOL ability.

If you're on vista... you can just use shutdown /i command to get a gui interface for shutdowns; or you can just use the Scheduled Tasks; Or you could use an AT job...

For me and my two computers I do not see where it can help me at all. I do think it could be of some use in a business with many computers that have to be have programs changed from time to time and where the administrater needs to look at another machine for some reason fromhis machine.

No not foe me and probably not for very many at any price even free.

Hello... Do you know Somnifero...

http://www.ricosoftware.net/en/index.php?pag=somnifero.php

BYE.

This is a nice freeware: makes it so that you can skin your shutdown dialog boxes
http://eng.softq.org/sshutdown.htm
Frank

A very good tool for bussinesses. And at $14.95. it sounds a tad overpriced. If it does what it says and proves to be a reliable app, then i dont think anyone would mind paying that much.

hy, i'm not able to run it over the lan, the button with network is grey (disabled), but lan is well working. may be it is free only for one pc?

Same question as 13.

If so, it would be great for home networks like ours. I could then turn on other computers in my home when I want to use our network to send something to them then turn them off again. Would that be doable with this program?

@randomguy:

no, slipperedlobster said (and meant) AutoIt - www.autoitscript.com
great tool & free

enjoy!

Can this program also TURN ON a computer (using wol)?

Nice one! Although I have other apps which have a shutdown manager like app, but its nice to have a standalone one haveing more features. Thanx GOTD!

Do you mean in a .bat file slipperedlobster?

Just one question:

Where is the company located?

From the copyright notice I would expect this software to be around 10 years old, but still the Log Messages window shown above claims that actions have been "quered". I'm guessing that either they meant "queued", as in placed in a queue, or "queered", which I really wonder about, since I'm not sure I want to know just how this software would queer the shutdown or rebooting of my computer, or having it try to do it.

In case you are unfamilliar with the latter term, just google it :-)

Hi Folks,

Note that RShutPro is normally $15 per client, on a network, or a little less, about $10 per user on 5, 10 users, etc. If it does the job well that is not unreasonable, especially for a small business network. Some competitive LAN-products are Emco ($135 per site) and rmtshutdown ($29/user) so RShutPro is definitely worth consideration in the LAN Shutdown mix. Possibly network management utilities have this type of feature included but they may not be as flexible and hefty.

This should be tested for how powerfully it does shutdown. A lot of shutdown programs will hang, waiting for a user response, not forcing a shutdown. Understandably, since messages will come up e.g. "save this work". So a good program should give you a couple of levels of forcing shutdown.

On a personal use I ended up with the freeware from Karenware "Show Stopper".
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptstopper.asp
(After trying some others like Slawdog and DShutdown.)

Karen's is not a scheduler or a LAN product, it is more of a "Shutdown Now" (without answering messages or pulling out the cord) program, and for that it is excellent.

Shalom,
Steven Avery
Queens, NY
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Messianic_Apologetic

Auto it can do the same thing in one line of code and its free. of course you could also apply it to your whole network:

if @hour=12 and @min=00 then shutdown(1)

or...
0 = Logoff
1 = Shutdown
2 = Reboot
4 = Force
8 = Power down
32= Suspend
64= Hibernate

In general such utilities can be useful in certain situations: e.g. leaving home while a download is running.

From the descriptions on their homepage it sound good an elaborated; (theoretical) it serves all possible useful functions.

My general advice with tools is:

1. Watch, how much RAM such utilities need, while staying resident (in RAM memory)...

2. Watch the (mis-)behaviour of your computer while using timing software...

(german)werwölfchen

So... what exactly does this program do that a simple "shutdown" from the command prompt, with the proper parameters can't? Sort of redundant to just provide a frontend for something that's already built into Windows :/

If it does not fit your needs - or if you miss it: There are a lot of freeware tools around with similar functions:

PC-Stop-It - a very simple tool - easy to handle:
lab1.de/Central/Software/System-Tools/PC-Stop-it/ (only in german?)

Last-Chance - is a little more elaborated:
www.fileware.com/products.htm (only in german?)

WinExit:
http://www.rebo-soft.de/winexit.html (only in german?)

WinExit (another Programmer´s tool with same name):
http://www.mysoft.de/html/downloads.html (only in german?)


PowerClick:
http://www.asmdev.net/


And many, many more... "google" for Shutdown etc.

For the average PC User i doubt it's worth a download,my PC is not that hard to turn off.A real Alexander Downer.

I guess this is better than the "off switch"?


thanks anyway but I'll pass on this ( regularly $14.95 ) alternative to using your finger to turn off the computers on the lan....

How lazy is this world becoming?

Just as a reminder to the ones that want to use that in a LAN:
It's strictly personal usage only!!!

Very useful for servers if frequent shutdowns are required.