If you are one of those users who normally leave your equipment on for long hours, whether downloading movies, rendering video, playing music or for any other reason, you probably want our equipment to turn off when a certain time of day or night arrives. automatically without our having to intervene personally.
Many are the applications that allow us to program our equipment so that once they have done the work they were doing, they proceed to turn off our equipment automatically. We also have applications intended solely for turn off our equipment if certain conditions are met like the processor has lowered its performance, that there is no free space ...
Fortunately, from Windows 10 we do not need to use any third-party application to be able to program our equipment to automatically turn off after a certain time.
Although it is true that Windows offers us different methods to be able to program the shutdown of our computer, in this article we are only going to refer to one of them, the simplest of all, since it does not require us to enter the Windows configuration menus.
Schedule Windows 10 Automatic Shutdown
- First of all we must click on the Cortana search box and write Run.
- Next, a dialog window will be shown where we must write,:shutdown -s -tX »
- X represent the number of seconds We want them to elapse from when we give this order to the equipment until the automatic shutdown process of our equipment begins.
- So that if we want our computer to shut down within 1 hour, we must write: shutdown -s -t3600 ″
Once we have established this countdown, the equipment will notify us that it has recognized the command and that within that time, it will turn off completely. This operation it cannot be undone unless we completely restart our computer.