Smart Sleep Timer

Smart Sleep Timer is a small software application whose purpose is to help you schedule a shutdown system task using a set of simple tools. It can be deployed on Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8.

Clean feature lineup

You are welcomed by an intuitive layout that implements all configuration parameters in the main panel. A help manual cannot be accessed but you can set up the dedicated options on your own because they look very easy to decode.

Schedule automatic system tasks

Smart Sleep Timer gives you the possibility to shut down, hibernate or put your computer to sleep at a certain time value (in hours and minutes), switch between a PM and AM mode, and select the day of the week when the automatic action is triggered.
It is important to mention that you need to have administrative privileges on the target computer in order to perform the scheduled tasks correctly.
Tests have shown that Smart Sleep Timer carries out a task quickly and without errors. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so the overall performance of the computer is not hampered.

Bottom line

All things considered, Smart Sleep Timer comes packed with basic and straightforward features for helping you schedule automatic shutdown tasks, and is suitable especially for less experienced users. Professionals may look for something else because the application does not come with support for advanced options.
You cannot pick the exact date and time from a calendar, trigger an automatic shutdown or restart session if the CPU usage remains below a certain percentage value for a custom number of minutes, and assign hotkeys for launching restart or turn off actions, just to name a few suggestions.