Best and safest way to auto shutdown at time xx:xx

[jackhammer_bob]

What is the best way to automate a computer shutdown at let's say 5AM in the morning. A way in which it ensures the computer shuts down and is not stopped by a "You didn't save, are you sure you want to exit" message box?

 

[TonyBAMF]

buy one of those alarm clocks that plays a cd for a alarm, put in a cd of people claping and set the alarm for 5am, buy the clapper (clap hands and shuts off or on) and hook up your UPS to it (if you do not have one get it), hook up your ups to your pc via Serial or USB tell it to shutdown on power failure, FIN.

 

[mgoldb2]

A free program like this will do the trick

http://www.konradp.com/products/auto_shutdown/

 

[Praetor]

A free program like this will do the trick

Hehe just make sure you validate it with your firewall otherwise the program may not be allowed to fire up

 

[Cromewell]

or you could schedule 'shutdown -s -f' to run at a specified time

 

[kobaj]

LOL at tonyBAMF's idea. Although I have to admit it is rather ingeanius(SP?) and out of the box.

 

[Praetor]

buy one of those alarm clocks that plays a cd for a alarm, put in a cd of people claping and set the alarm for 5am, buy the clapper (clap hands and shuts off or on) and hook up your UPS to it (if you do not have one get it), hook up your ups to your pc via Serial or USB tell it to shutdown on power failure,

If the UPS suffers a failure, the computer attatched to it will terminate.

 

[Daveb2012]

go into task scheduler and shut down in their..