Shut down computer after recording?

[hatterman]

Hi

Thanks for all the replies, I'll try again tonight. Seems the answer is simply to use the windows power saving mode then.

Cheers.

[garymeds]

i use vista and have set my power settings to sleep after 60 mins inactivity BUT have found recently that it sleeps immediately after a recording is complete.

no idea why this suddenly changed (as I haven't touched anything and auto-updates are disabled) but it doesn't really bother me and i haven't even checked event logs to see why. i will do and post if i find anything..

[gEd]

Hi

Thanks for all the replies, I'll try again tonight. Seems the answer is simply to use the windows power saving mode then.

Cheers.

yep, you should be fine.

The only problem that some people seem to encounter is that the PC doesn't go to sleep when you want it do. This is usually due to some process running and keeping windows awake.

When running on XP, I used this utility but see how you get on first.

http://slicksolutions.eu/

[liteswap]

To the OP - I've written a utility to do put a PC into standby, available here.

It was written in AutoIt (just a single command - hardly difficult) so it should work! Any AV warnings are false positives, a well-known characteristic of a compiled AutoIT script. Letme know if it works for you.

[hatterman]

Configured windows power saving last night. Works a treat !! No idea why I overlooked this before i asked the question !