Today’s blog post is just a quick one for anyone searching on how to put your computer on a shutdown timer or a sleep timer for when you’re leaving work in the afternoon but you’ve left a file downloading in the background
The process is simple. Click the start button and type ‘run’ without quotes. On Windows 10 you’ll want to click on the one highlighted in the image below. A similar icon will appear in your Windows 7 start menu.
Now type in shutdown -s -t 3600 where 3600 is the seconds you want to delay before shutdown. 3600 seconds is one hour, so our computer will shutdown in one hour from now if we press OK.
Click OK and you’ll notice a little alert box (on Windows 7) or toast box on the right (Windows 10) appear on your screen with information about the shutdown.
If you find that you need to cancel it for whatever reason and change the time, go back to that Run Prompt --> Windows + R and type shutdown -a which means abort.
