How to make a batch file that file shutdown a computer every half hour of every day

In this instructable I am going to show you how to make a batch file that will shutdown a computer every half hour of every day. I also included an small tutorial on how to use the AT command.

This was posted for educational purposes only, I am not to be held responcible for any inappropriate usage of this information or the files that I may have provided. I am not to be held responsible for individuals or groups of people that suffer consequences of using this information or the files that I provided, these consequences include things such as expulsion, getting fired, or legal action.

Step 1 Lets begin

Alright, lets begin. First open notepad and copy this script:

at 0:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 0:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 1:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 1:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 2:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 2:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 3:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 3:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 4:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 4:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 5:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 5:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 6:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 6:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 7:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 7:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 8:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 8:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 9:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 9:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 10:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 10:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 11:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 11:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 12:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 12:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 13:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 13:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 14:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 14:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 15:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 15:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 16:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 16:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 17:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 17:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 18:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 18:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 19:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 19:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 20:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 20:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 21:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 21:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 22:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 22:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 23:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 23:30 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5
at 24:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5

Then save this as a batch file, for those of you who do not know how to do this, just type .bat at the end of the file name when your saving it.

Comments

[jdewane]

hey i dont know if ill get an answer, but its not running for me :/

[hungyhipo 2]

how do you stop it after you prank the person

[nu4ever]

I tried to just run part of this but it didn't work. I want the computer to shutdown at 9:00pm evernight. What am I doing wrong?

[Nemraiku]

at 21:00 every:m,t,w,th,f,sa,s shutdown -s -t 5

[munchman]

Ah, finally a shutdown.exe prank that is actually good. I like it.

[QwertyuioLP]

Sweet Faved

[Spartan-196]

You should if you add an explanation tell that the "shutdown -s -t 5" runs the shutdown.exe with the parameters of shutting down the computer with a count down of 5 seconds which can be changed to 00 for immediate shutdown with no dialog box (also maybe -r is restart and -l is log off) for added customization if they want