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How To Schedule Computer To Shut Down at A Certain Time in The Night

To schedule a Windows 7 computer to shut down at night, one creates a basic task in the Task Scheduler by selecting a daily trigger to run the shutdown.exe program with the /s argument at the desired time, which will automatically shut down the PC each night at that time.

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How To Schedule Computer To Shut Down at A Certain Time in The Night

To schedule a Windows 7 computer to shut down at night, one creates a basic task in the Task Scheduler by selecting a daily trigger to run the shutdown.exe program with the /s argument at the desired time, which will automatically shut down the PC each night at that time.

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How to schedule computer to shut down

at a certain time in the night


If using Windows 7, follow these steps to schedule your PC(Personal Computer) to shut
down at a certain time at night:

1. Go to Start > Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools and click on
the Task Scheduler.

2. From the Action menu in Task Scheduler, click "Create Basic Task..."

3. In the "Create Basic Task Wizard" windows that pops up, Type in a title and a
description. Something basic like "PC Shutdown."

4. Click "Next."

5. On the "Task Trigger" screen, choose the frequency with which you want the Shutdown
PC to run. For nightly shutdown, click on "daily" and click the Next" button.

6.On the "Daily" screen, enter the date and time you want your PC to shutdown. Click
"Next."

7. On the "Action" screen, choose "Start a program" and click "Next."

8. On the "Start a Program" screen, type C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe in the


"Program/script" text field.

9. In the Add arguments text field type /s.

10. Click "Next."

11. Confirm your settings on the Summary screen and click "Finish."

Now your Windows 7 computer will automatically shutdown at the same time every
day/night.

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