Shutdown Timer Provides Better Auto Shutdowns

Speak for yourself. I found this very interesting and probably will get that program.

Agreed. It's better news than some of the other things I've seen on here. If ya don't like it, don't comment on it. Didn't momma tell ya "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."?

I think I'll get this, it'll have use for when I'm torrenting over night, or doing a virus scan.

I've been looking for a good one of these forever. My father likes to leave his computer running all night long.

A lot of the more popular torrent programs have a setting to turn off your PC when your Torrents finish downloading. At least I know uTorrent does.

Ooo nice find! I'm forever having to leave my PC on overnight when encoding videos/virus scans/etc because I have no way of shutting them down after the job is done.

Thanks

It takes one command in Fedora 13.

agreed, better than those stupid apple articles.

Why not just using power saving tool of windows???? It turn off your computer after a predefined lapse of unused time, and can even wake up your computer, do it's stuff (scan, backup, updates) and then return to hibernation state... It's all included with windows and working correctly...

agreed also...better than those stupid comments by users who don't like this article...PEACE!!!!!

I can put this to good use. Thanks!

Or get a decent downloader and tick the shutdown when complete box, just about every time consuming process has that option hidden away somewhere.

idk about other apps but bittorrent lets you set your own shutdown time, or shutdown when your torrents have finished.

utorrent has options to put your computer to sleep/shut down when your torrents are done. But this is still a handy app, I'm going to download it.

Windows... open cmd line and type: shutdown(space)/t(sp)xxxx(sp)/s where xxxx is time in seconds and (sp) is space. Enjoy..is free

s0omething for me going to sleep streaming some ninja video...Thank you Rico

Been wanting something like this since Win 3.11. Thanks for the nice find.

press start+r

shutdown -s -t100 (will shutdown in 100 seconds)

simple

I never leave my computer on at night. That's madness.

Nice! Much better than burning an ipod in a blender with a magnifying glass while shooting bullets through it.

Has anyone else noticed that comments keep getting deleted on Toms? It seems like anything the mods don't like its getting removed. I'm ok with ads/spam/hate speech being deleted, but many other comments are also being removed.

This looks to be very useful.

yes, and im tired of it already.

I placed a comment in another article earlier, they removed a very important stat (had wwii deaths listed, they removed a country which dramatically changed the meaning of my post.)

We must have been redirected to Toms - China

This is what they posted back in March. Hopefully it will answer your question; maybe it won't:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/t [...] ,9855.html

That really seems a bit much. Isn't having comments auto-hidden if they're low ranked, plus the 'alert moderators' feature enough?

Either way, the ban hammer is getting used so much that its starting to make it hard to follow the discussions. This is made even worse by selective mod edits. Sure its funny to alter a person's idiotic post, but the frequency with which this is being done is getting out of hand.

I've had a couple of my posts removed. I don't receive an email notification telling me that my comment was removed. I'm assuming I went off topic or something, but I'm not troll and try to stay on topic. Discussions often change to a point where they are no longer about the article (e.g. this discussion), that doesn't mean that comments should be removed.

According to their guidelines, this comment could be removed as it shows political affiliation and its off topic.

Whose computer uses *that much* electricity?