You have successfully created the task to shut down the computer when idle for 1 hour. It will show in the library like this:.
By following this procedure, you will be able to schedule a shutdown after a PC has been idle for 1 hour. This is convenient when your computer is functional when you are not around and it should shut down automatically. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Site Notice Privacy Policy. Schedule a shutdown in Windows 10 after PC has been idle In order to schedule a shutdown when PC has been idle, you need to follow the following procedure step by step: Click the Search button.
Type Task Scheduler in the search bar and select the Task Scheduler option as the following screen is showing: Task Scheduler window will look like this: Click Create Task option on the right side of the screen under Task Scheduler Library section. As soon as you will click the option Create Task dialogue box will appear as follows: By default General tab will open, enter the following settings here.
Above image is also highlighting the settings: Enter the Name of the task e. Shut down computer when idle Turn the radio button on named Run whether user is logged on or not Check the box named Run with highest privileges Select the option Windows 10 from Configure for drop down.
Select the Triggers tab. The following screen will appear: Click the New button as highlighted in the above image and do settings for this Triggers section. As you will click New button, New Trigger dialogue box will appear as follows: This setting of trigger depends on your choice. It will look like this: You can see the created trigger.
Now click the Actions tab and click the New button to create the action: After clicking the New button, you are ready to create a new action in New Action dialogue box as follows: In the New Action dialogue box, click the Browse button and select the shutdown program from your computer as follows: As you have selected the shutdown program by clicking Open button you will get back to the New Action dialogue box and it will show like this: Click OK button to create the selected action.
You can get around this by setting an upload speed limit in your downloading program and setting the threshold in SmartPower above the upload limit, ensuring that uploads alone won't keep your computer on. You can have it pay attention only to input download activity rather than output upload activity.
The following examples are for uTorrent , but other download applications will often have similar features. When the download completes, your file-downloading program will run the shutdown. If you want to hibernate your computer instead of shutting it down, use the shutdown.
How do you automatically shut down your computer after downloads are complete? Or do you leave your computer running overnight instead? Leave a comment and let us know! The command prompt is still a powerful Windows tool. Here are the most useful CMD commands every Windows user needs to know. The following advice assumes you already have 'wget' installed: 1.
Open a terminal 2. Yes, you are right. But usually one runs wget and later he decided to stop computer when download is finished. Simple solution is cron job running every n minutes where n can be usually 2, 5 or 10 minutes checking if wget is still running ps grep wget and halt computer when no output is emitted.
Or if you need to use the "ps grep" method, check out pgrep and watch out for "ps grep" matching itself. It places a button to enable checking status of downloads and shutdown the computer when all are completed. This feature is only available to subscribers.
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