3 How to Schedule the computer shutdown in Windows 10, 8, 7 the easiest way

Shutdown timer is one of the essential needs of many people. For example, when you are downloading a movie that weighs nearly 10GB and someone suddenly calls you out to Coffee to talk about work, what should you do when the browser reports that it is 1 hour before the download finishes. At this point, you won't want to pause the download or consume excess battery power when the download is finished.

Therefore, you need a method that can help you schedule application shutdowns and shutdowns when important tasks on your website are completed.

Simple! With just a few steps are guided under the following article, you can easily schedule Windows 10 shutdown in just one note.

So let's find out how you can do this. 

SYNOPSIS

1. Use Command Prompt to schedule Windows 10 shutdown

2. Use Shortcut to schedule shutdown Windows 10 computer

3. How to change the Shortcut icon "Timer shutdown"

4. Schedule Windows 10 shutdown with mShutdown software

1. Use Command Prompt to schedule Windows 10 shutdown

This way can be applied on almost all Windows operating systems such as win 7, vista, and win 10.

The structure of the shutdown timer code here is:

shutdown -s -t 3600

Note: 

shutdown: default setting

-s: This is short for Shutdown

-t: This is short for Time (time).

3600: This is the shutdown timer time (unit: seconds). Example: 3600 seconds = 1 hour

So, if you want the timer to turn off for how many seconds, just change the time part like 3600 seconds above.

For example:

3 minutes: shutdown -s -t 180

10 minutes: shutdown -s -t 600

15 minutes: shutdown -s -t 900

...

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Once you've completed the code generation step, your job should be as follows:

Step 1: Press the Windows + R key combination

Step 2: Paste content into the search box

Step 3: Click OK to complete the operation

Windows will notify you as soon as you press OK in the right hand corner to let you know the time when Windows will automatically shutdown.

Alternatively, if you need to cancel a timer you just need to change the code to:

shutdown -a

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2. Use Shortcut to schedule shutdown Windows 10 computer

This method will solve the number of times problem. Specifically, if you have jobs that need to schedule a regular shutdown time and at the same time, use this way to create yourself a Shortcut - Helps you not need to recreate the code as in Option 1 that just create 1 time and then just click on Shortcut at the top of the screen, you can schedule. Simple is not it?

Step 1 : Generate shutdown timer code. Re-read way 1 to learn how to generate a shutdown code.

Step 2 : Go to the desktop , right click on the screen and select New => Shortcut

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Step 3 : A Popup appears, in the Type the location of the item : enter the code. Here I enter: s hutdown -s -t 3600 (off timer is 1 hour later)

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Step 4 : Click Next to continue, and enter a Shortcut name in the box: Type a name for this shortcut . I enter: Timer shutdown - Ben Computer

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Step 5 : Click Finish to complete. Now you go to the Desktop to see a shortcut displayed as an application.

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Step 6: If you want to schedule a shutdown, just open the shortcut or right click on the shortcut icon.

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3. How to change the Shortcut icon "Timer shutdown"

The default Windows icon for Shortcuts doesn't excite you enough, you can easily change it with the following steps:

Step 1 : Right-click on the shortcut, select Properties

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How to change the Shortcut icon "Shutdown timer" - Photo 1

Step 2 : Popup pops up, go to the Change icon button to change the icon.

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Step 3 : Choose an icon you like, easy to see

And the result is:

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How to change the Shortcut icon "Shutdown timer" - Photo 3

4. Schedule Windows 10 shutdown with mShutdown software

mShutdown is a Vietnamese Windows shutdown timer software written by Nguyen Thanh Minh . With simple operations, combined with an easy-to-see interface, Vietnamese will help you easily schedule a shutdown on your windows computer just choose the time.

There are 2 features in this software are:

Timer shutdown according to fixed time. Example: Schedule to shutdown at 11:20 am ′

Timer shutdown after a fixed time: Example: shutdown after 10 minutes

Software manuals:

Step 1: Download mShutdown software to your computer

Step 2 : Run the AutoShutdown.exe file

Step 3 : Set the time parameters.

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Schedule Windows 10 shutdown with mShutdown software

Step 4: Click Start to start timer

Above is a summary of the shutdown timer on Win 10, 8, 7, XP simple and also very fast. Ben Computer will write another article on how to turn off the computer on MacOS, hope you watch it.

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