Auto Shutdown

You can Shutdown Windows Computer Daily by following the procedure given below. Daily Shutdown of a Computer can be useful for unattended computers or when you want your computers to shutdown automatically at configured time. In order to shutdown windows computer daily, you would need to select the option that says Daily Actions from Easy Shutdown menu.

Select Daily Actions from Easy Shutdown Menu

The Daily Actions Menu of the Easy Shutdown provides many computer control actions and hence you would need to select the appropriate Windows Shutdown Action and would need to specify the time at which you want the computer to shutdown automatically. As displayed in the figure below, just specify the time at which you would want the windows computer to shutdown automatically and click on OK.

Select Shutdown from the Actions and Click On OK

The Setup of Easy Shutdown , adds Easy Shutdown to Windows Startup and hence the shutdown action configured above will be executed automatically at the configured time. In case your windows computer is not running at the configured time, the automated shutdown will not be able to execute and will be executed the next day. This automated Shutdown of Windows , can also be skipped by existing the application from system tray or by removing the application from windows startup or you can just delete the Daily Action configured by following the steps above.

System Wide Shortcut Key Combination is a key combination which can be pressed on Keyboard and will initiate the configured action. This Post describes how you can configure EasyShutdown to Shutdown Windows Computer whenever you press the configured Shortcut Key. The Software allows you to configure numerous shortcut keys and varied windows computer control actions. The Menu Option to start configuring the shortcuts keys is displayed below.

System Wide Shortcut Keys from Easy Shutdown

Once you click on the System Wide Shortcut Keys Menu of Easy Shutdown, you will be presented with another Dialog Box where you can configure the shortcut keys. The Configured System Wide Shortcut Key can be used as long as the Easy Shutdown Application is running. You can click on the top cross button to minimize the application to System Tray so that you can work on other windows applications. Once you exit the Easy Shutdown Software, the shortcut keys to shutdown computer will not work any more. The Shortcut Keys dialog will also allow you to remove the configured shortcut key combination or assign some different shortcut key combination.

F6 configured to Shutdown Windows

The EasyShutdown offers to initiate windows shutdown with two varieties. Depending on the usage, you can select either of the options. The First Option is labelled as Shutdown Computer and other option says Shutdown Computer (Brute)

Using EasyShutdown you can either create a desktop shortcut or schedule to shutdown computer with either of the options (i.e. Normal Shutdown of Windows Computer or Brute Shutdown of Computer).

Normal Shutdown of Windows Computer is the type of Shutdown which is offered by Windows Start Menu. Once you initiate a normal windows shutdown of computer, Windows Operating System notifies all the open applications that user has initiated a windows shutdown and in turn if they have any unsaved data or they require your attention, they prompt you with a dialog box to ask what you want to do or they may also take automated backup of data, it all depends on how every application behaves. Normal Shutdown can be automated or can be used with Desktop Shortcut, System Wide Shortcut Keys, etc with the EasyShutdown Software Utility.

Brute Shutdown of Windows Computer initiates shutdown of computer as well, however when initiated using any of the automated or manual ways using EasyShutdown, asks Operating System to Shutdown Computer forcibly without waiting for any applications running with any unsaved data. This Brute Shutdown of Windows Computer can be useful when you want to be sure that the computer must shutdown as configured irrespective of any unsaved data or any other applications running.

In Order to Shutdown a Windows Computer with desktop shortcut, create a desktop shortcut using EasyShutdown Software Application and use the Desktop Shortcut to shutdown computer.

Create Desktop Shortcut Menu Option

The above action will invoke a selection where you can select the shutdown option. Once you select the appropriate option, a desktop shortcut will be created on the desktop. Just like any other shortcut, you can launch it to shutdown windows computer. This shortcut should be able to shutdown a windows 8, windows 7, windows vista, windows xp, windows 200 and other windows computers, provided you do have required rights to shutdown computer. In general if you can see the shutdown option in the start menu, this desktop shortcut will work fine.

Select Normal or Brute Shutdown with Desktop Shortcut

Before clicking on OK, note that there are two options to shutdown a windows computer. The First option which says Shutdown Computer will initiate a normal shutdown of computer. Once the desktop shortcut is launched it will prompt you to save any unsaved data and in case you do cancel saving of any unsaved documents, the shutdown may be aborted. However the second option which says Shutdown Computer (Brute) will initiate a shutdown of windows computer, but will not wait for saving of any open documents and will be comparatively faster shutdown.

All the Software Applications presented in this Auto Shutdown Website will work fine on Windows 8 as well. Controlling Windows 8 to automatically shutdown as per a defined schedule will be as easy as controlling any other Windows version using our software applications. Our Auto Shutdown Software Applications work fine on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and other existing Microsoft Operating Systems.

As Microsoft is preparing for the next version of Operating System with the name of Windows 8, our software applications have already been created using best technologies available and hence our automatic windows shutdown software applications will work fine on Windows 8 as well. Yes whenever Microsoft releases initial version or beta version, we will be testing our software applications on Windows 8 and will make sure that our software utilities work fine on the next generation operating system as well.

In case you are planning to get the next version of Microsoft operating System and in need of an auto shutdown software, do try out any of our software utilities to auto shutdown windows computer on any version of Operating System. Our Software utilities are really cheap and are free to try without any reminders or any feature limitation. Yes future updates to our software applications are free of cost as well. In a nutshell, our software utilities all our auto shutdown software applications will work fine on Windows 8 and in case you face any issue whatsoever, we will give you a free update.

Now you can automatically shutdown your windows computer with auto shutdown software. The Software presented here can do shutdown of windows computer automatically as per configured settings. The Automatic Shutdown can be configured at specified date / time or even after specified time interval.

The Auto Shutdown Software can help you control power to your windows computer. You can even configure the computer to shutdown forcibly even when some applications are running or alternatively you can configure the software to wait before shutting down the computer automatically. The Auto Shutdown can be stopped by exiting the software from the system tray icon or by cancelling the computer shutdown from the shutdown alert. The Shutdown Alert is also configurable and can be switched ON or Off. You can also configure the Shutdown Alert Screen to be displayed for a given number of seconds.

Use the Auto Shutdown Software to define computer shutdown time. You can even automatically hibernate and resume computer so that the whole process is automated. Lots of Automatic Computer Shutdown Options are available to control and manage the power state of the Windows Computer. Download the Auto Shutdown Software now and get complete control over your desktop or laptop computer running Windows.

Now there is a direct, simple & fast way to switch user in case your windows computer does have more than one users configured. You can Switch User from Desktop Shortcut or you can even use the Switch User Command as the way presented here is by launching a tiny application program. You can even display Switch User Screen if your computer is left idle using a Screen Saver. The Switch User functionality has been tested on Windows 7, Vista and XP.

You can use the Switch User Application from command prompt or by directly double clicking on the application. The functionality is available as add-on in the Software Utility named Turn Off Monitor. Download the application and navigate to the add on folder to find SwitchUser.exe and launch it to display the Switch User Screen.

However if you would like your computer to display the Switch User screen when you leave the computer idle, you would need a screen saver. A special Screen Saver has an option to display the Switch User screen when the screen saver is launched. The ScreenSaver has other options as well such as Lock Workstation / Computer, Log Off Signed On User, etc.