Scheduler and power saving tool
As computers take on more and more automated tasks, they seem to spend more and more time fully powered on.
In many cases personal computers are left running all the day just to execute some tasks that the computer may do during non-working hours.
Allowing a computer to go into standby or hibernation and then waking it up as needed is a much smarter option.
Certainly there are tasks that require the computer to be always on, but for other tasks there is often a better method,
which helps you to save power and reduce the level of noise.

Standby mode is energy conserving, because your entire computer switches to a low-power state. Devices, such as the monitor and hard disks,
turn off and your computer uses less power. It''s easy to return to work, because Standby leaves applications and files open on your desktop Standby
is not appropriate for long term use and it has one important limitation: everything is in memory, not yet saved to the hard drive.
Hibernate mode writes an image of what you''re currently working on to a special file on your hard drive, and then shuts your computer almost completely off.
It takes a bit longer than Standby, since it needs to write to your hard drive. Hibernate also takes a bit longer to resume,
since you must go through essentially the normal boot process, although in Windows XP your computer wakes faster from Hibernate than in previous versions of Windows.
The advantage is that you can leave your laptop in Hibernate mode for days without any ill effect. When you start it back up, you''ll see everything exactly as you left it.
Hibernate is the perfect mode for shutting down for the night or even the weekend.You can also schedule remote events on remote machines if your IP address is set as a server on the remote machine.
At the setting of the event''s execution time you can choose between more options:

- You can specify exactly the date and the time of the event (At...)
- You can specify an interval of time relative to a specified date and time (From...In...)
- You can specify an interval of time relative to the actual moment (In...)
- You can specify an event that will be executed in that moment (Now)
- You can specify a time (minute and second) when an event will be executed hourly (Hourly)
- You can specify a time when an event will be executed every day (Daily)
- You can specify a time when an event will be executed every business day (Business Days)
- You can specify a time when an event will be executed every weekend day (Weekend Days)
- You can specify a time and day when an event will be executed every week (Weekly)
- You can specify a time and day when an event will be executed every month (Monthly)

The settings will be available after a power failure or a restart of the computer too.
You can specify more events in the same time and the events will be executed in the order of the time specification.
The program will monitor the usage of the CPU and the lifetime of the battery and will show them in charts. This is a very useful feature for portable computers.
You can define keyboard events for your applications. If you want to simulate the pressing of some key or key combinations for an application then this tool is ideal for you.
You can define your custom events, for this you need to specify an event name and a DLL file name/path and a method name, which contains the event logic.
In this way you can write your own event handlers inside a DLL and register it in Shut Down Expert. You can find an example of custom event handler in the Shut Down Expert SDK.
Shut Down Expert supports DCD infrared remote control receivers through WinLirc. In this way you can control your computer through any remote control.

The program contains a Hot Key Manager module to manage system - wide hot keys. In this way you can define global hot keys for events.
The program contains a smart Startup Manager module to manage the applications that start with the operating system.
The program contains a Wake-up Manager module to manage the applications that will start after the system is waked up (resumed).
The program contains an Application Manager module to manage the applications that are running in the memory.
The program contains an Idle Time Manager module for managing your idle time or for power saving.
Here you can set your computer to turns itself off or hibernates after some minutes of user inactivity. (Available only for Windows 2000 or later).

With this program you can set your Windows to automatically log on to your account without every time asking for authentication.
The software provides multi - language support. You can integrate your own language file, creating a text file with "lng" extension which will be
automatically detected by the program after you copied it in the "Language" directory.