How-To Geek

Do you ever wanted to listen to music before you go to sleep or run a virus scan, but you don't want to leave your computer running the whole night? Then here is a perfect tutorial for you!

1. Type cmd in start menu search
2. Right-click on cmd and click on "Run as administrator"
3. Then type the following: at hh:mm shutdown -s (replace hh with hours and mm with minutes when you want then computer to shut down)

Tip: you can replace -s with -r if you want to restart or -h if you want to hibernate.

I hope you like this tutorial :)

it will be a forced shutdown. You will get a warning before the shutdown.

Hi All
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Kwisj

@ kake, Do we have to set the time according to our current time or we have to enter the hours(like countdown) ??

Nikhil.

So, if you want the computer to shutdown at 10 pm, you have to set the command to: at 22:00 shutdown -s. It uses the 24-hour clock system.