Automatic Windows shutdown

[jayhawk88]

Anyone know if there is a way to get Windows98se to automatically shutdown after a certain function (in this case, a backup) is complete, or perhaps at a certain time?

My problem is this: have a user who is performing a backup of a network resource from their workstation (don't ask) at 9:30 each night. The network is scheduled to boot all logins at around midnight, and having a network-booted computer in the morning is causing problems with the user (again, don't ask). I'd like to be able to automatically shutdown the computer after the backup is complete, or at, say, 11:30, by which time the backup should always be completed (only about 600 meg worth of stuff).

Ideas?

[ricco]

Apart from turning the electricity off in the building I don't know of any way (Withou installing 3rd party software) that it can be done. I know how to do it in NT, but you have services, so I'm stuck for words. Anyone who knows, let us know.

[King Grover]

What type of network is it? I think Novell can schedule PCs to auto shutdown at a given time through some scheduler thing. If you are on a network, try going to one of the network boards. g'luck.

[3fingersalute]

Are they ATX systems?...If so, you could throw a little batch file together that you could schedule to run that would shutdown the machine like this:

C:\windows\rundll.exe user.exe,exitwindows

[jayhawk88]

Sweet, I think that'll do the trick 3FS. Thanks!