ShutMeDown

If you want to get rid of the habit of leaving your computer powered on during the night in order for it to complete a download task, you can simply turn to specialized software.

ShutMeDown is one of the numerous tools that can be of great use when you want to schedule your PC to power off at a certain time.

Once you install and run the application, it creates an icon in the system tray, so it does not interfere with your work in any way. Whenever you want to access its functions, you can simply click the aforementioned icon and select the action you want to perform.

ShutMeDown supports several types of actions, such as lock, log off, sleep, restart, hibernate and shut down, while also providing you with hybrid shut down (it can be enabled only on Windows 8 and it allows you to turn off your PC faster than using standard mode).

Due to ShutMeDown, you can schedule your computer to automatically power off, restart or enter hibernation mode at a specified time. Moreover, you can also activate the force mode button, thus ensuring that your computer get powered off, restarted or hibernated no matter if there are additional apps currently running.

Moreover, you can also use ShutMeDown to make sure you do not spend too much time on your PC in your spare time; in other words, you can set it to lock your computer for a certain time range, so you have no other choice but take a break once in a while.

You can also rely on this app to persuade your children to go to bed before it gets too late, by scheduling their PC to power off or lock when you want it to. Next, you can password-protect the settings to prevent them from disabling your schedule.

Also, once you scheduled the app to shutdown, reboot, lock or hibernate your PC, it displays dedicated counters on your desktop showing the elapsed time, so you get plenty of time to save the current work before the computer actually powers off.