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6. Shut Your Computer Down Later (Windows)

Screenshot: Gizmodo
Screenshot: Gizmodo

Shut down your computer in the future with “shutdown”—add “-t xxx” to delay it by xxx number of seconds (from 0 to 315,360,000, which is 10 years) and “-f” to force close any dialogs. As an example, to shut your computer down in 636 seconds, you type “shutdown -f -t 636″.