Many parents always worried about that their children spend too much time on the computer. As a parent, you had better make a plan for kid's computer time. However, is there a way to limit children's computer time, and how to limit children's computer time? In fact, it is not necessary to worry the problem, there are many ways to help you to let your computer automatically shutdown at a specified time. If using Windows 7, you can follow these steps to schedule your computer to shut down at a specified time:

 

1. Click Windows 'Start Menu' and then click on the Task Scheduler which is located at Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools.

 

2. Click "Create Basic Task..." from the Action menu in Task Scheduler. 

 

3. In the "Create Basic Task Wizard" windows that pops up, Type in a title and a description and then click "Next".

 

4. On the "Task Trigger" screen, choose the frequency with which you want the shutdown computer to run. For nightly shutdown, click on "daily" and click the Next" button.

 

5. On the "Daily" screen, enter the date and time you want your computer to shutdown and then click "Next".

 

6. On the "Action" screen, choose "Start a program" and click "Next".

 

7. On the "Start a Program" screen, type C:WindowsSystem32shutdown.exe in the "Program/script" text field.

 

8. In the Add arguments text field type /s.

 

9. Click "Next" and confirm your settings on the Summary screen. Finally, click "Finish".

 

Ok, after you complete these steps, your Windows 7 computer will automatically shutdown at the specified time every day. As you can see, this way is so complex and this way can be stopped by a normal user.

 

Is there a better way to shut down computer automatically? Yes, you can use a shutdown timer for Windows 7 to do the thing. Timer Shutdown Assist is an excellent shutdown timer for Window 7 operating system, you can use it to make a better plan to limit computer time. You can set a password for Timer Shutdown Assist to protect shutdown task, so a computer user can not stop shutdown task when the computer user does not know the password. It is very easy using the shutdown timer software to set shutdown task, and you can set different shutdown task for every day.

 

As above mentiond, Timer Shutdown Assist is an excellent shutdown timer for Windows 7, you can download it from here or click the following button to download the excellent shutdown timer for Windows 7.