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Turn Off Your Computer Automatically

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Turning off your computer automatically is so easy using a free program called Handy Tweakers. Among many features, there is a Turn Off Tool which enables you to specify the exact time that you want to turn off your computer so if you have a download that takes a long time, defragmentation of a big hard desk, encoding a video file or even burning a DVD, you don't have to stay awake or keep your computer running all night. Here is how.
  1. Download Handy Tweakers if you don't have it.
  2. Run Handy Tweakers.
  3. Click the tab called Turn Off Tool.
  4. Choose the action that you want to perform either Shut down, Restart, Log off or Hibernate.
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  5. If you want to turn off your computer after a specified time - like after finishing a download - choose "Execute after" option then type how many hours and minutes you want to turn off your computer after in this format HH:MM meaning, if you want to turn off your computer after 2 hours and 30 minutes then type: 02:30. You can type up to 99 hours.
  6. If you want to turn off your computer at a specified date and time then choose the "Execute at" option, type the desired date and time directly or click the down arrow and choose the desired date. You can choose any date and time up to one year.
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  7. Click the Enable button and notice the green label. You can cancel every thing by pressing the Cancel button.
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  8. In the Options tab you can choose "Show Warning" so Handy Tweakers will show a warning one minute before the execution in a top most window so you can cancel the whole operation if you like, also you have the "Force Shutdown" option which terminates any program that refuses the shut down operation.
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