Schedule a PC reboot, shutdown, or hibernate with WinOFF

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Schedule a PC reboot, shutdown, or hibernate with WinOFF

by Brad Linder Aug 15th 2007

So you're in the middle of downloading a large file, or sending a huge batch of photos to your mom. The file transfer's going to take another 40 minutes, and you really want to hit the sack. But you don't want to leave your computer on all night sucking up energy.

WinOFF is a nifty utility that lets you schedule all sorts of power-related actions. You can set your computer to shutdown 60 minutes from now. Or you can tell it a specific time to shut down. There's even an option to shut down the system when your CPU is idle, under the assumption that this means your computer is probably finished with whatever task you set for it.

Don't want to do a complete shutdown? You can put your computer in suspend or hibernate mode. Or if you just want to make sure your PC is fresh and ready to go in the morning, you can schedule a middle of the night reboot.

[via CyberNet]

Tags: hibernate, power management, PowerManagement, restart, shutdown, sleep, winOFF

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Josh said 4:58PM on 8-17-2007

"Switch Off" is better. It has a much more compact and simple interface with all the same features. Plus it has a web interface to shut down computers over a network.

Josh said 4:58PM on 8-17-2007

"Switch Off" is better. It has a much more compact and simple interface with all the same features. Plus it has a web interface to shut down computers over a network.

Josh said 5:56PM on 8-17-2007

"Switch Off" is better. It has a much more compact and simple interface with all the same features. Plus it has a web interface to shut down computers over a network.

raycosm said 5:38PM on 8-21-2007

Excellent, things like this is why I subscribed to this blog a while back. It's DOWNLOAD Squad.

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