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snake68

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My ISP offers free traffic during 2:00 to 7:00, so I remote desktop to my old PC (OS: XP) which runs uTorrent and I usually set it to shut down at 7:00 AM.

Problem is I get the message "If you shut down this remote computer, no one can use it until someone at the remote location manually restarts it. Do you want to continue shutting down?" and the PC just sits there waiting for a confirmation.

Is there a way to disable / bypass this and shut the PC down anyway?
 
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HVoltage
I had the same problem with an XP machine. One way to bypass this confirmation is to use the 'at' command to schedule the shutdown and it's fairly easy, too.
just open a command prompt ( to open a command prompt go to Start--> Run and type 'cmd' and click OK )
and enter the following command.

Code: 
at 7:00 shutdown /s

Of course you can change the time of the shutdown to whatever suits your need. This will take about a minute after the time specified ( e.g 7:00 in the above command ) to shutdown your machine, however you can overwrite this waiting time with the following switch

Code: 
at 7:00 shutdown /s -t 10

The above command will now wait 10 seconds after 7:00 before shutting down the machine.

Good luck.
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Which is your main concern, having the PC shutdown at a specific time or having your uTorrent stopping its downloads at 7:00? If its the uTorrent option, then have a look at the preferences setting, it allows you to set download times for the uTorrent application.
 
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snake68

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No, I've tried it even with no apps running in the background. The confirmation is required nonetheless.
 
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Having the PC shutdown at a specific time. I've already set Scheduler for uTorrent.
 
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snake68

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Tried the Microsoft hotfix, no luck. Yup I want to set my PC to shut down without any confirmation, because I won't be there to confirm anything. It was a mistake to mention uTorrent in the first place :lol:
 
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I had the same problem with an XP machine. One way to bypass this confirmation is to use the 'at' command to schedule the shutdown and it's fairly easy, too.
just open a command prompt ( to open a command prompt go to Start--> Run and type 'cmd' and click OK )
and enter the following command.

Code: 
at 7:00 shutdown /s

Of course you can change the time of the shutdown to whatever suits your need. This will take about a minute after the time specified ( e.g 7:00 in the above command ) to shutdown your machine, however you can overwrite this waiting time with the following switch

Code: 
at 7:00 shutdown /s -t 10

The above command will now wait 10 seconds after 7:00 before shutting down the machine.

Good luck.
 
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snake68

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Thanks, it actually worked! Never heard of "at" command before. It's going to be super useful :D
 
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