Feature request: shutdown at a fixed schedule

[TD-Solutions]

For those of us for whom Windows Task Scheduler simple "shutdown /s" only works half of the time, provide the possibility to define a shutdown time not in terms of a timespan but of a fixed schedule.

Bonus: ShutDownTimerClassic launches automatically on windows startup and automatically creates a shutdown time according to latest specified schedule.

[lukaslangrock]

Interesting idea.

You could maybe already do this by using command line arguments to initiate a shutdown. You need to use the Installer in the GitHub Releases or download the executable with dependencies manually because just executing the exe won't work with the Microsoft Store version.
I am currently not on Windows, so I can't test it, but you should be able to launch the app with arguments using the Windows Task Scheduler too.
Give it a try using the instructions in the readme and set it up in the Task Scheduler once you are happy with it. Just be careful not to lock yourself out of your PC on accident :)

If it doesn't work I can just implement it into the App directly.

[lukaslangrock]

I'll close this as not planned, as you could work around it by using the Windows Task Scheduler in conjunction with CLI arguments for Shutdown Timer Classic. Routines or schedules are out of scope for this app, as they would require deeper integration into Windows and a more complex installation and code base, which is not really the goal I had for this app - hence the classic name.

Though there have been plans in the past to actually make a non-classic version, something modern and more capable, which could benefit from this. No promises tho.

[lukaslangrock]

I am thinking of boiling this down to a button which allows you to install a schedule into the Windows Task Scheduler using CLI launch arguments for Shutdown Timer Classic, but this would still be managed externally by Windows and might result in problems if the app is uninstalled or the CLI changes.

[lukaslangrock]

Reopening this as the above-mentioned integration into Windows Task Scheduler