Tag: SHUTDOWN

In what appears to be a continuing trend, popular BitTorrent site Demonoid, has shut down. Again. On November 9, 2007, the site went dark, displaying nothing more than a cryptic message that seems to say, "the fuzz turned up the heat on our landlord and we had to bail." It's a sad, sad day for file sharers. Oh wait, that was October 23, when the really awesome site was shut down. Or the first ...

Sony seems to be gutting its online media offerings like a fish... or something else you gut. Last month we found out that Sony was closing its Connect music store. Now it turns out the company is also killing the ImageStation online photo sharing site. ImageStation is dying a slow death. You can no longer sign up for a new account. Some features will be shut down on November 12th, including image ...

So you're in the middle of downloading a large file, or sending a huge batch of photos to your mom. The file transfer's going to take another 40 minutes, and you really want to hit the sack. But you don't want to leave your computer on all night sucking up energy. WinOFF is a nifty utility that lets you schedule all sorts of power-related actions. You can set your computer to shutdown 60 ...

While Windows has the ability to automatically schedule the execution of processes, it is quite limited with respect to handling more interesting process triggering criteria. For example, if you're looking for a way to run a specific process (defragmenting your hard drive, for example) before shutting down, Xecutor is the ticket. It can automatically intercept the Windows shutdown command, and ...

I haven't tried it out to see if it works yet, but it looks promising: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service is a free  utility from Microsoft that's supposed to speed up Windows XP shutdown times considerably. The article at IntelliAdmin says the biggest culprit for slow shutdowns "is a problem unloading the current user's profile," and what the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service does is in the ...

This is a quickie. Ever wish you had a snooze button for your PC? For example, you have a job running that you know will take about an hour to run, so you’d like to be able to tell your computer to shutdown after 2 hours. While this can be done with the task scheduler, it’s far easier to use a small, dedicated utility to perform this function. And that’s exactly what ...