Automatically shutdown computers. Reduce electricity wastage and bills. Secure networks in the process.
 

Auto ShutDown (ASD) shuts your PC down at a pre-determined time. There are two main functions of ASD, firstly to reduce electricity consumption secondly to allow the user to leave the PC to finish a task, and not have to return just to switch the PC off.

Reducing electricity consumption

There are millions if not billions of computers around the world. People use computers at work, some at home and others both at home and at work. From time to time every one has forgotten to switch their PC off. If it is a computer at work, we are less conscious since it is not our own computer and electricity. When it is a PC at home we are more wary, and try to off the machine once we have finished using it.

A single PC, does not consume a huge quantity of electricity by itself, but multiply this consumption with all the PCs left switched on in any one organisation, then the cost soon starts to increase. Now consider how many PCs are left switched on every night, the amount of electricity consumed is phenomenal.

ASD can prevent such accidents occurring, by switching off computers at a specified time, say 18:00hrs every day.

The environment

Since ASD helps reduce electricity consumption, it greatly helps the environment. The combined wasted electricity can save the destruction of huge forests around the world.

Enforcing shutdowns

ASD runs transparently in the background, the only visible difference is a new icon is added to the task tray. To modify ASD properties this icon must be double clicked with the left mouse button.

To prevent users from terminating the application and preventing shutdowns occurring, a password can be requested before any settings can be modified.

There are two type of shutdown ASD supports. A normal shutdown checks if all documents have been saved, and prompts the user to save before closing the application. The second forces the PC to shutdown, this is required if arbitrary users can log into a computer and not save all their work, hence preventing a shutdown.

Shutdown zones

A new feature to ASD are shutdown zones. This allows the administrator to control the shutdown time for classes from a single file.

In previous versions of ASD, if the administrator wanted all the PCs in "room A" to shutdown at 18:00, then this time must be entered in each version of ASD on every PC in that room. Now the shutdown time can be retrieved from a single file, allowing the administrator to easily control and modify the time class rooms of PCs are to shutdown by simply changing the time in a single file once.

ASD is the most advanced shutdown utility available on the market today, supporting unique functions. All of which are geared to decrease wasting electricity.