Power Manager

Although shutting down your computer doesn’t take more than a couple of seconds, your computer might have things to do without your actions, and you might not afford to spend time until it’s done. Luckily, you can rely on specialized applications like Power Manager in order to have the computer powered off at a given time.

Since it doesn’t take you through a setup process to make things work, you can see what it can do for you from the moment download is done. This also means it’s possible to have it stored on a USB flash drive in case you want to use it on other computers. Registry entries are not modified during runtime, so the health status of the target PC remains intact.

The application stores all it has to offer in an intuitive interface, which doesn’t really pose any accommodation problems. The operation you want to schedule is selected from a drop-down menu, while time can be set to either an exact value, or after a particular amount of minutes.

You can schedule a decent variety of power operations, such as shutdown, restart, logoff, standby, and hibernate. Moreover, a simple message is also among the available tasks, which means the application can also be used as an alarm clock, which can also play an audio file when the time comes.

Changes are remembered on exit, and you can choose to have it launched on system startup so shutdown is done automatically. The application quietly sits in the tray area once configured. The only downside to the operation is that you can only set one active action.

All things considered, we can state that Power Manager is a reliable application which can prevent your computer from staying powered on for no reason if you’re not around to turn it off. The list of actions is decent, and you can even use it as an alarm clock, without triggering a power option.