Shutdown at this time ... or after this much time elapses

[jamesthehockeyguy]

I love the "shutdown" keyword.  However, I'd like to be able to tell it to shutdown after 5 minutes, or 10 minutes, or 30 seconds, or whatever.

If you're curious, the reason is because I have a program that does backups for me.  Sometimes I tell it to run after I'm done using the computer (it slows down the computer too much).  I'd like to tell my computer to shutdown in 1 hour so that it won't interrupt the backup process.

[Andrew Langford]

You can do this with Keybreeze Professional Edition.  It has a task scheduler that lets you set up keywords to run automatically at certain times.  In your case, you could schedule the "shut down" keyword to automatically run in one hour.

[lanp16108103]

On windows, you can call Shutdown.exe with several parameters

shutdown -s -t 3600
will shutdown your computer afer a 1 hour delay  (3600 seconds)

open a command prompt and type "shutdown -?" to have command line switches description

Then you can easily create a keybreeze shortcut with your custom command...

Not that the "shutdown -a" command is usefull to _A_bort the shutdown sequence.  Also, don't forget to put the -s or -r parameter BEFORE the -t option.  shutdown.exe doesn't seem to process the -t option without them and closes Windows immediately   

[jamesthehockeyguy]

Good to know.  Thanks all!