Automatically turn off the computer smarter

When you have to perform tasks that require a lot of time on your computer (such as virus scanning, defragmenting, burning, video processing, downloading large software, etc.), users often do not Be patient and wait patiently on the machine to perform other tasks.

This may cause you to forget to turn off the computer after the job is complete, wasting both power and reducing the life of the PC. Let the computer automatically shutdown (shut down the entire system), log off (exit the account), hibernate ("hibernate" mode) or reboot (reboot) at a specific time or after After completing a certain task, you should use TurnOff Master.

This utility is quite useful, especially for programs that are running on the computer that you cannot know exactly when it will be completed. In addition, Turnoff Master has an advantage of not installing.

First, you need to extract the turnoffmaster.zip file into a new folder on your computer and then double-click the file TurnOffMaster.exe to activate Turnoff Master. The screen showing Turnoff Master (with a guitar image) will appear. Click on the OK button. The Windows is running for . information line in the lower left corner of the interface will help you know how long the computer has been working since the last time the device was opened.

Select a task.

Set the shutdown mode.

To schedule your computer to turn off automatically, double-click on the red text No schedule is set. Double click here to set one then click on Time tab in the Schedule dialog box, set 1 of 3 types of computer shutdown including automatically shutting down the computer after a specific time ( Execute after , in which the first 2 digits is the number of hours, the next 2 digits is the number of minutes and the last 2 digits are the number of seconds), automatically turns off the computer at a specific time ( Execute at , in which the cell immediately after the Execute at line is the place to You select the computer shutdown date and the next box is where you can set the computer shutdown time) or automatically turn off the computer after a certain program terminates (click on the " . button) . ", click on the name of the program that you want when it finishes, the computer will automatically turn off from a list of Running Applications window and then nh p-click the OK button).

Next, click on the Action tab, select 1 of 4 tasks including Shut down , Log off , Hibernate or Reboot PC ( Reboot ). then click on the OK button.

When the time comes for the event, a dialog box will appear to inform you that it will perform the task you scheduled after 60 seconds. Click on the Abort button if you want to cancel the task.

To turn off all features of the program, go to the File menu and select Disable . If you want to increase the 'weight' for the 'command' to shutdown, select Options… in the File menu, check the Force Shutdown option before clicking the OK button.

This Force Shutdown function allows you to shut down the computer regardless of whether other software is active without having to confirm whether it is turned off or not. However, you should also be careful not to use this function when defragmenting.

With a capacity of only 443 KB, compatible on most versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems, the free (freeware) version of Turnoff Master is available here.

Le Nguyen Bao Nguyen