How to automatically shut down computer using Task scheduler(without batch file)

You might forget to shut down your computer while leaving office or your students might forget to shut down computers in lab. In either case, you may want to shut down the computers after they are in use and you know they won’t be in use for a specific period of time. So you plan to shut down all computers at a specific period of time. Here is a simple tutorial to do so.

In this first method, I will do the job without creating a BAT file.

Step 1: Open Task Scheduler. Click on Create Basic Task

Step 2: Give a name to your task say, “ShutdownPC” and press Next button.

Step 3: In next window, Choose Daily option. And click Next button.

Step 4: In next windows, set time when computer should shut down.Leave everything as it is. And press Next button.

Step 5: Now choose action from next windows. In our case, choose first option, Start a program and press Next button.

Step 6: Next window asks to provide program to start . In this case, it is shutdown.exe. After browsing shutdown.exe program and adding ‘/s’ in Add arguments field, click Next button.

Step 7: Next window gives a summary of our scheduled task. Click Finish button.

Done!

In next post, i will post about the same topic but using batch file.