Power Off – Shutdown scheduler utility!
A couple of days back I had my laptop running on AC supply while I was listening to some of my favorite songs lying on my bed. And suddenly I dozed off only to wake up seven hours later and still finding my over 4 GB song-list being played. That’s when I started searching for a shutdown scheduler and came across this truly useful software called PowerOff.
Positives of PowerOff :
1. PowerOff is a simple shutdown scheduler which offers you a wide spectrum of actions to be chosen from. The count goes up to 11.
2. It also has the facility to alert you by running a particular program, issue a warning message or force close an application at the scheduled time. The scheduled time can be immediate, a particularly mentioned time or the moment when a process stops.
3. One can also control a remote computer if connected, in a similar way.
4. The interface is simple and all options are present in a single compact window.
5. You can also enable or disable the canceling of the scheduled activity.
6. To add to its merits, it is a standalone application and occupies less than 200 KB.
Negatives of PowerOff :
I couldn’t really find any negatives in it. All its functions worked fine on my PC and though I could not really test it on networked or remote computers, I doubt that it will have any sort of difficulty in those cases too.
Although the software itself doesn’t have a help menu, its website offers all the information that may be required.
Bottom Line :
Extremely useful tool
Software Details
Version: 3.0.1.3
License: Free
Homepage: PowerOff
OS Requirements: All Windows Versions
Rating
4 Dinos out of 5
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October 17th, 2007 at 4:42 pm #
[...] ReviewSaurus has written a good post on how you can schedule your computer to be shutdown at a specified [...]
Steven Snell
October 17th, 2007 at 11:22 pm #
Pretty cool. This definitely could be very useful.