Automated Hibernate

[Heyt]

Hi sub,

would it be possible to have a function like the screensaver that will hibernate the PC after a specified time with no actions?

I know theoretically Windows can do the job but for some reason i don't understand it never do the job correctly if it does it at all.

[sub]

Someone could easily write a plugin to do this.

[Heyt]

Sounds good hopefully someone will do it

[stefan]

Have you seen the shutdown plugin? Doesn't it do what you want?
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/Shutdown

[McBainUK]

I think he wants the computer to shutdown automatically, bypassing the windows functions to do this.

Trouble is, how would the plugin know if anything is running eg comskip?

[MaBo]

I let windows do it. And for the past one and a half years it may have failed only once. It could be that you have a process running (winamp, disk access from another pc etc...)

If windows cannot do it, I doubt a plugin can do it for you without creating problems of losing data in open applications etc.

[MarkD]

I use a freeware program called AMP WinOFF. It's set up so that after 20 minutes with CPU usage below 15% (on my 800Mhz machine) windows hibernates.

When recording or during playback, CPU usage is high enough to prevent hibernation.

The only thing I had to change was to disable the "next Recording" line on the main screen, as it spikes the CPU pretty high every two seconds.