Schedule Shutdown Time in Windows

In windows we can schedule a time to shutdown the system.

Follow the below steps to do so also learn some shutdown commands.

Step 1) Go to start menu and search Task Schedule and in the right side click on create new task.

Step 2) Give name to your task schedule and click on Triggers and create new triggers here

Step 3) Choose date and time for task for one time, daily,weekly and monthly and press ok.

Step 4) Click on Actions and copy the below script and arguments or you can browse the .bat file of shutdown command in the drive and save it.

Step 5) Your shutdown task schedule has been created, you can now enable or disable it from the main screen of task schedule and per your selected time the computer will get shutdown.

Some shutdown commands and bat file :-

For shut down ( shutdown /s )

For restart ( shutdown /r )

For log off ( shutdown /l ) 

Save the below file in notepad as shutdown.bat to run immediate shut down commands with options

@echo OFF

ECHO "Choose an option .."

ECHO "1 = Logoff"

ECHO "2 = Reboot"

ECHO "3 = Hibernate"

ECHO "4 = Shutdown"

SET /p option=Choose one option-

IF %option%==1 SHUTDOWN /l

IF %option%==2 SHUTDOWN -r -t 10

IF %option%==3 SHUTDOWN /h

IF %option%==4 SHUTDOWN /s /f /t 0

PAUSE

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