Shutdown Timer

Shutdown Timer is an approachable application you can use to schedule the computer to power off, restart, hibernate or log off at a specified time. It has intuitive options that can be tackled even by users with little or no previous experience in such software.

Setting it up takes minimal time and effort, since there are no special options or third-party components bundled. However, you must have .NET Framework installed, since it was developed with the aid of this platform, otherwise it won't work.

Once launched, Shutdown Timer gets integrated into the system tray and shows the main window with all settings. It's possible to select any day by consulting a calendar, set the hour, minute and second, as well as choose the power feature between shutdown, restart, hibernate and log off.

It gets minimized to the systray to become non-intrusive and let you to carry on with your regular computer activity while counting down to time in the background. If you enable the silent mode, it won't show any balloon messages, so you won't have any interruptions. Moreover, it can be asked to play sound when time's up.

We haven't come across any unpleasant surprises in our tests as far as stability is concerned, thanks to the fact that the program didn't freeze, crash or show error dialogs. As we expected, it didn't put a strain on the overall performance of the computer while running in the background, since it needed a low amount of CPU and RAM to work properly.

Although it hasn't been updated for a long time, Shutdown Timer offers a simple solution for configuring your workstation to automatically shut down or perform another power option at an exact time. Plus, it's freeware.