How to automatically shutdown your computer

How to automatically shutdown your computer
This tutorials will teach you how to set a future time to automatically shutting down your windows pc without using any third party software. You can do it from the command prompt or run dialog box using shutdown command.

If you want to see more help with what parameters that can use with shutdown command please open command prompt window and type: shutdown /? but here let me just tell you some of it.

The syntax shutdown command is shutdown -[parameter1] -[parameter2] -[parameterX]

Parameters:
s = shutdown
r = reboot
t = timer of the system to shutdown in seconds ( t xx )
f = force running applications to close
a = abort shutdown process.

Usage: Open the run dialog box by pressing Window Key + R together
- If you want your computer to shutdown in the next 30mn, use below command: shutdown -s -t 1800

while [t] is in second so 30mn = 60x30 = 1800s

- If you want to restart your computer in the next 30mn shutdown -r -t 1800

- If you want to abort the shutdown command process. shutdown -a