You are so right, David! Hybernation does not work with the shutdown command.
Lenny, thanks for the batch file to call poweroff. I will certainly use it. Always learning something new for a very old programmer like me.
Take care. Lennie At 12:43 PM 5/8/2012, you wrote:
That is exactly correct my friend, good man for getting it so quickly. David Ferrin Always be yourself because the people that matter don't mind, and the ones that mind don't matter. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lenny McHugh" <[email protected]> To: "blind computing" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 12:39 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] shutting down the computer I do not remember who all was also interested in setting a time to shut down the computer. I just made a very basic batch file called poweroff.bat It only has two lines as follows: @echo off shutdown -s -t %1 I then copied the file into the windows directory so at the run command I will type poweroff ### the ### is the number of seconds that I want to elapse before the computer is turned off. --- Please visit my home page, it is motivational, educational, inspirational with a touch of humor. There is also a very extensive resource list for the blind. http://www.LennyMcHugh.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
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