Is aut. shutdown possible?

[koden]

Sometimes I would like my Thinkpad to shut down aut. in 30 minutes, when my download is finished. Is that possible ?
I have a T40 and a T60.

[rkawakami]

Assuming you are using Windows, you can simply change the Power Manager settings to hibernate your system after a specified amount of time. While it's not the same as a total shutdown and you are limited to the time delays that are provided from within Windows, that could work for you.

If you rather have your system go into a complete shutdown, then there appear to be some programs/utilities which allow you to do just that. Google:

automatically shutdown windows

and you should find some freeware programs. I suppose you could also use the DOS shutdown command in a batch file and then use Window's Scheduled Tasks Manager. There's plenty of ways to skin this cat...

[poshgeordie]

And for Linux there's crontab.

[aaa]

Certain download managers have this exact feature: shutdown when download is finished.

[pibito79]

for windows you can use a software call Icpu shutdown. you can program to turn the laptop for time incativity or when it finish a download. It very good and easy to use

[jack b]

Getting extra software to do this is probably overkill. In Win XP Pro (and I assume home) you can run the command "shutdown -s -t time"* to shutdown the computer with a delay.
To run commands, either open a command prompt or just do start -> run. To find out more about the shutdown command, type shutdown -h in a command prompt.

*I'm pretty sure this is the right syntax, but I can't check atm.

HTH
Jack

[slaz]

Getting extra software to do this is probably overkill. In Win XP Pro (and I assume home) you can run the command "shutdown -s -t time"* to shutdown the computer with a delay.
To run commands, either open a command prompt or just do start -> run. To find out more about the shutdown command, type shutdown -h in a command prompt.

Sure - or you can put the above command into a batch file, and then run that batch file as a scheduled event (if, say, you wanted to shut the machine down at xx.00 hours every night or some such).

[koden]

Thanks...off course...I now use shutdown -s -t time