How to Schedule a Shutdown in Windows

You can schedule a shutdown in Windows. We will see how to plan a shutdown in your windows computer. It works for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. To arrange or organize an automatic shutdown in your Windows computer, we use a run command. Once you set up a shutdown, when the specified time period is elapsed, you computer will shut down. Follow the given instructions to schedule an auto shutdown.

1. Open Run dialog box from start menu (or by pressing Windows key + R).
2. type shutdown /s /t sec in it.
   Here sec is the amount of time in seconds to be elapsed before shut down.
3. Press Enter or click OK.
4. You will be notified that a shutdown is scheduled.
5. It is done.

An example is:

shutdown /s /t 600

Here after 600 seconds (10 minutes), the computer will turn off. The following video will show you.