Automatic Shutdown PC – In a few simple steps

Do you want to move from your computer without having to keep it on for all your absences? Just program a timer with Don’t Sleep. Many of you will surely happen, performing some operations to the PC, to feel the need to schedule an automatic shutdown of your Windows PC.

By downloading a file perhaps, late at night, you would have wanted to have a timer that can turn off your computer – desktop or laptop – at the end of the download.

Same thing with regard to such a session of video playback before bed, after which you would have felt the need for an automatic shutdown can reduce the power consumption is also important.

Windows do not provide tools that integrate a similar function, or rather, not close to the common user side. That’s why we have chosen to offer you a short and simple guide that can in less than no time to prepare the automatic shutdown (or other operations such as the entry into hibernation or standby) in your PC. We develop this guide on how to use a simple universal tool, called Don’t Sleep.

Don’t Sleep is a small application developed by Nenand Hrg proposal and totally freeware version it replaces all the cumbersome procedures for certain timer program using the Command Prompt. The thing is possible by default on Windows, but with the knowledge of some special entries that make it impossible to carry out in practice full speed users base. Let’s see how to retrieve it, how it works and what are its potential.

Procedure: How to program the automatic shutdown of your PC.

Set a timer can be really a no-brainer. First of all, you must download Don’t Sleep. Here you can choose the version for 32 or 64 bits, depending on the version of Windows that you have installed on your machine, of course. You do not know what it is? Just verify the information on your PC, available in Control Panel > System and Security> System.

Downloaded and unzipped the archive. Zipper, place the folder in one easy step to find. We recommend, for convenience, to move it inside the C: drive and create a shortcut on the desktop for the sole .Exe file located inside. Once this is done you will have the opportunity to run the application, which is installed but you do not just whenever you want to schedule an automatic shutdown of the PC.

Launch the application and see what’s on offer. Double-clicking on the file. Exe Don’t Sleep starts instantly. Once this is done we will have access to a number of very interesting tools to manage shutdown, blocking, stage of stand-by and hibernate your Windows computer, even if some of the states mentioned to depend on the version you have installed.

To program the automatic shutdown of the PC does not need to do is refer to the second box in your application, called ” Timer “. Here you will have the opportunity to choose, via a form (also equipped with calendar), the day and time when you want to ensure that your computer shuts down – or hibernate and so on.

Once this is done you can just choose the action to perform, or ” Quit and Turn Off Your Computer ” and activate the flag ” Use the timer. ” At this point, Don’t Sleep will start a countdown, after which it will turn off your computer automatically.

Keep in mind that the main settings are required only when you first start, and in the same way that you can perform similar operations as the entry into a stand-by mode. In the second run, you can just choose the time, set the timer and minimize it. In this way, you can for example, make a very large download, export or run a video in general a set of extended operation should go and turn off the computer by reducing energy waste and wear of the computer itself.

As we said Don’t Sleep is not the only way that you can make, because through Command Prompt, the above operations can be performed in the same way. Interfacing with an easy to understand and use is the most versatile solution, especially now that Windows takes a turn more and more oriented towards applications and less on the manipulation of codes.

To be specified also that some software plus have the function of turning off the computer at the end of an operation: uTorrent can close an option with the machine at the end of the download. Much video editing software can turn off all at end export, and so on.

Using Don’t Sleep, you will have a universal solution, fast, lightweight, and always at hand. Try it and you will not regret it. The version of Don’t Sleep at which this guide refers is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1.