AutoPowerOff

AutoPowerOff is a small software application developed specifically for helping you schedule shutdown sessions using a set of simplistic options.

Keep the utility stored on pen drives

You can run AutoPowerOff by double-clicking the executable file because no installation setup is included in the process. It does not leave entries in your Windows registry and other configuration files so you can get rid of it using a simple deletion task. It actually saves the configuration settings on the storage device. You do not need administrative privileges in order to open the utility.

Simple looks

You are welcomed by a clean and minimalist design that embeds only a few configuration settings. There’s no support for a help manual but you can get an idea about how to tweak the dedicated parameters in a short amount of time.

Configuration settings

AutoPowerOff offers you the possibility to set the time in hours, minutes, and seconds, and activate the AM or PM mode. In addition, you can make the application shut down or restart the workstation, or log off the current user when the time is up.
Other important settings worth being mentioned enable you to abort the selected action, force the closing of applications in order to make sure the scheduled task is executed successfully. You can also abort an active task because the program shows a warning 30 seconds before executing the process.
Tests have shown that AutoPowerOff is not a resource hog. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not affected. On the downside, it has not been updated for a while so you may bump into compatibility issues on newer operating systems.

Final remarks

All things considered, AutoPowerOff comes packed with basic features for helping you schedule system shutdown, restart or logoff sessions, and can be configured by less experienced users and professionals alike.