| As computers take on more and more automated tasks, they seem to spend more and more time fully powered on. In many cases personal computers are left running 24 hours a day just to execute some tasks that the computer may do during non-working hours.
For example, a disk utility may be set to defrag the hard disk during the middle of the night, or as we move into the era of the digital home, a computer may be left running so that the PVR software can record the user's favorite TV show.
Allowing a computer to go into standby or hibernation and then waking it as needed is a much smarter option. Certainly there are tasks that require the computer to be always on, but for other tasks there is often a better method.
Shut Down Expert is designed to resolve these problems of your computer. It supports more type of events:
- Turn Off (to turn off the computer)
- Turn On (this option will hibernate the computer and will turn it on at the specified time)
- Restart (to restart the computer)
- Log Off (to log off the current user)
- Turn Off Monitor (to turn off the display)
- Screen Saver (to turn the screen saver on)
- Standby
- Hibernate (hibernate the computer)
- Wake Up (wake up the computer from Hibernation, Standby, Monitor Off and Screen Saver modes)
- Start Application (to execute an application)
- Close Application (to close an application)
- Empty Recycle Bin
- Empty Clipboard
- Eject CD-ROM
- Close CD-ROM
- Capture Screen (to capture the screen in a bitmap)
- Message (this option will give a message alert)
- Send Message (this option will send a message to other computers)
- Download
- Custom keyboard events.
You can also generate remote events on remote machines if your IP address is set as a server on the remote machine.
At the setting of the event's execution time you can choose between more options:
- You can specify exactly the date and the time of the event
- You can specify an interval of time relative to a specified date and time
- You can specify an interval of time relative to the actual moment
- You can specify an event that will be executed in that moment
- You can specify a time when an event will be executed every day.
The settings will be available after a power failure or a restart of the computer too.
Shut Down experts supports DCD infrared remote control receivers through WinLirc. In this way you can control your computer through any remote control.
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