Shutdown Controller pro

Chances are you fall asleep long before your computer does so. Unlike you, the computer keeps using energy, which might show up on a bill by the end of the month. If you’re not there to turn off the computer at a given time, then you can rely on specialized applications like Shutdown Controller pro to solve this problem.

A cool thing about it is that you don’t even have to go through the hassle of installing it to function. On the one hand, this means that you can use it on other computers besides your own, and even carry it around on a thumb drive. On the other hand, the health status of the target computer doesn’t get affected because registry entries remain intact.

A pretty compact window shows up on launch, with a couple of tabs dedicated to the two time options at your disposal. On the one hand, you can choose to countdown from a specific value, which is selected from a drop-down menu, with intervals ranging from 10 minutes to 10 hours.

The other method to set time is where you tell the application the exact hour for it to trigger the power option, and this is also done from a drop-down menu, with a 12 hour format configuration. When set, the window closes and a different panel is brought up displaying the remaining time and operation.

Unfortunately, the application is pretty straightforward when it comes to the set of power options at your disposal. In other words, by the end of the specified time, the computer shuts down directly, with no other power option to select. There isn’t even the possibility to have a cancel option, or to force all processes to close when the time comes.

All things considered, we can state that Shutdown Controller pro isn’t really a pro option as the name suggests, more likely a straightforward operation to have the computer powered off at a specified time.