Pc's Automatic shutdown

Here is an interesting way of acheiving what you want without having to download any software.

http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/archive/topic/26121-1.html

If that is not something you wish to try here is a link to a free auto shutdown program but I have not tried it so I do not know how well it actually works.

http://www.brothersoft.com/auto-shutdown-64879.html

Let me know if this helps or if you have anymore questions.

Thanks

There are a couple of things you could try, a bit tedious however setup a scheduled task on every machine to shutdown the pc at a certain time.

Or providing you are a domain admins on the server run a batch file from the server to shut the pc's down remotely change computername to the pc name and copy the line for every pc you would like to shutdown.

something along the lines of

shutdown.exe \\computername -s -t 60 -f

if you add the -f switch aswell this will force the shutdown incase programs are crashing in the background just remember to make sure no one is sitting at the pc!!

I would test this on a dummy pc first before running on the server so you get the hang of it. If you getinto any trouble click start run shudown.exe -a which will abort the shutdown this is why you give it 60 seconds to allow you to do this.

This script could also be scheduled to run on the server if you are not around when it needs to be run.

Hope this helps.

Lee

This link provides a list of 3rd party software to accomplish what you want. There are several 'Freeware' utilities listed, which means you wouldn't have to spend any money on them.

http://automatic-shutdown.safe-install.com/

40 Euro = ?32 (near enough).
If you need it free then i would suggest to get a book or look around for yourself.
Sometimes certain things are not FREE you have to pay for them, like your job is paying you for your services. People like you make me laugh, you want things but are not willing to pay for them. Enough said. :) :)

On your machine or a server and launch it through Scheduler when needed. Here is a good example;

http://mcpmag.com/columns/rss.asp?editorialsid=692

Another option (if you have Ghost)is to use your Ghost Console to set up a task for shutdown for each group. To set it up use the rundll32.exe to run on the remote system and under Network Shutdown after task.

How many clients are there? If not too many, then Win Pro is OS of the clients that are to be shutdown, but not all of them, and Win Pro is the OS, that means task scheduler is on the clients. With that, you could use it directly.

Schedule a task, with timing as appropriate for individual machines as appropriate, with this:

"%windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -s -f -t 00"

in the Target field.

Let us know if that does it.