Daily Tips and Tricks

You can abort a forced shutdown by doing the same thing in many different ways. 1) By Making a batch .bat file, 2) By making a shortcut, 3) By using Run Box, 4) By using Command Prompt. All these are equally good ways of stoping shutdown when the shotdown box appears on the screen.1) Batch fileOpen notepad and type shutdown -aWithout any spaces and save as BlockShutdown.bat and you are done. Whenever the Shutdown Box appears on screen, just double click the BlockShutdown.bat file and the shutdown box will be closed and the shutdown aborted. 2) By Making a shortcutRight click on desktop. Click

Setting up a timer for automatic shutdown is not difficult, in fact many people would already know about it, but if you don’t, read on. There is no software to install and no tweaks to be made. An automatic shutdown is inbuilt into Windows and ready to be explored. Let’s check out how we can set a timer for automatic shutdown. 1. Right click on the desktop. Select New → Shortcut. A New Shortcut dialog box will appear.2. In the location box, this is how you will enter the details: shutdown.exe...

Scheduling allows you to complete tasks such as a virus scan, software build or file copy while you are away. Similarly you can schedule Shutdown. The computer will shut down at the time specified whether you are sitting at the computer or not. It can also be used as a way to limit the amount of time users have on the computer as long as the users do not have administrator privileges. Users with administrator privileges will have the ability to stop the shutdown process.Here are the steps for Scheduling Shutdown.1. Goto "Control Panel" under "Start" menu.2. Click the "Performance and Maintenance