Subject: Re: The annoying way that BOINC "throttles"..
From: "~misfit~" <misfitnz@yahoot.com.au>
Date: 12/11/2007, 21:25
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Gary Heston wrote:
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.

Thanks for that Gary, good to know.
-- TTFN, Shaun.