Windows 7 shutdown through Group Policy Preferences - Blogs. Shutting down Windows 7 has been a bit of a bug bear, with some PCs refusing to shut down, or settings not quite working the way I wanted them to. In an ideal world, I wanted a situation where computers would attempt to shutdown at 3. The PC would then wait until 1. Idle, then shut itself down. In reality, the first part usually worked fine, the second part, not so much. My preferred method of shutting down is though Group Policy Preferences - Scheduled tasks. I set a scheduled task to run the inbuilt shutdown command within Windows 7 to run a 1. PC had been idle for 1. It was this second part that didn't seem to kick into gear, no matter how much I tinkered with the settings. It appears, from my experience, that if the inital command can't run, the scheduled task is then set as 'Queued' and then refuse to run, even after the set idle time had elapsed. I had set this task to run again at 1. However, by this point the scheduled task had become a touch unwieldly in size, and was having a negative impact on boot up times. Also, if PCs missed the 1. PCs were left on for a long time before finally shutting themselves off. A better way was needed. My settings are now as follows: Boot up Group Policy Management. Create new GPOComputer Configuration - Preferences - Control Panel Settings - Scheduled tasks - Scheduled task (Windows Vista)Name the task. I would strongly recommend using a domain admin as the user to run the task as, but I leave it up to your own security procedures as to whether you do this or not. Triggers - New.. Set for every weekday at 1. Repeat task every 1 hour for the duration of 1. Actions - New - Start a program . If the machine is in use, then it will wait until the next time to try and shutdown again. I believe it will also pick up on machines that have been turned back on after being shutdown, but I haven't 1. So there we have it, I hope someone finds this useful!
In Windows Vista and 7, click on start button, type 'Task Scheduler' and hit enter. Or you can run Task Scheduler from the control panel. In Windows 8, open control. The program i am setting the task for is CCleaner. The song is by diamond star.
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