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Usage

Selecting an Action

You can choose one of the following actions in the What? section:

Forcing applications to close: Check the Force checkbox to force applications to close when you perform a Power Off, Reboot or Logoff action. Warning: Selecting this option might result in the loss of data if open applications contain unsaved data.

Choosing the Timer Type

You can either perform the select action by using a countdown, by specifying the exact time or by selecting a conditional countdown.

Countdown:

Performs the selected action after the countdown has expired.

Time:

Performs the selected action at the specified time.

Conditional Countdown:

Performs the selected action as soon as no remote users have files open over the network on this machine (server). The selected action will be performed immediately if there are no files open at the time you click the START button. The specified timer (e.g. 3 hours) is basically the maximum period of time you are willing to wait for. While the countdown is running, ShutdownTimer will continuously enumerate all open files and only proceed with the selected action if there are no open files.

ShutdownTimer will not do anything if the countdown has elapsed and there are still files open, UNLESS you check the "Proceed even if files are open at end of countdown" option.

For more information see Conditional Countdown Options.

Starting the countdown

To start the countdown, enter the desired time interval / time in the Timer section and click on Start. You can pause the the countdown anytime by clicking the Pause button either in the dialog or in the context menu of the tray icon. To pause and clear the entered time press the Clear button.

Command Line Parameters

To start ShutdownTimer minimized (as a tray icon) execute

shutdowntimer.exe /hide

with the /hide command line parameter.