Subject: Re: The annoying way that BOINC "throttles"..
From: gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston)
Date: 12/11/2007, 18:28
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

In article <43489$47386c18$82a1d3bf$9367@news2.tudelft.nl>,
Patrick Vervoorn  <patrick.vervoorn@NOSPAM.perihelion.demon.nl> wrote:
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Undertandable. But a tool to switch of your computer on a timed basis 
should be available for download somewhere, I suppose. ;)
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If you're running XP, no need to download anything more than a Service
Pack:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814761

And this points to using the command shutdown.exe with the at command:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317371

Shutdown.exe should be on all Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 systems,
from what I see on Microsofts' website. 


  Gary

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