A simple way to schedule a Windows shut down (or restart), with an easy to use interface.
There is no installation needed.
Just download the zip file at Releases, extract it and run the standalone .exe file.
Simple Sleeper is compiled into a standalone .exe file using PyInstaller.
If you want to know more about PyInstaller and all of its supported features, go to:
PyInstaller Manual @ PyInstaller 5.0 documentation
To do it, first you will need to:
pip install pyinstaller
Just run the compile.bat file at the compile directory and it will do the job for you.
If you want to manually run PyInstaller, execute the following command at the compile directory:
pyinstaller -w --onefile ..\main.py --icon app_icon.ico --name Simple-Sleeper
The program works by making a simple Windows batch file, containing the SHUTDOWN command.
If you want to know more about the Windows SHUTDOWN command and all of its supported flags, go to:
The user interface allows you to choose the desired shut down or restart time, which gets converted into seconds and copied to /t flag of the command.
Currently supported modes are 'Shut down' and 'Restart', using /s and /r flags respectively.
When the start button (green) is pressed, the selected options are parsed into a temporary 'turn_off.bat' file. For example, the demo above gets parsed into a file containing:
SHUTDOWN /s /f /t 8700
Then, the file gets executed (scheduling the shut down) and deleted afterwards.
When the abort button (red) is pressed, the /a flag is parsed into a temporary 'turn_off.bat' file:
SHUTDOWN /a
which gets executed (aborting the scheduled shut down) and deleted afterwards.