Help me save the planet with this script...

[fredde76]

Hi!

First I have to say I´m a total newbie on VBScript.

I want to do a VBscript that turns the computer off at a specific time incase I forget to turn it off at night. This is good for the environment and also my powerbill.

My plan is to add the script i scheduled tasks in windows, to be run at 20:00 every day. However I do not want the script to complete starting shutdown.exe if Im still working with something. Therefore it would be brilliant if The script can do:

1] a messagebox with some information to the user
2] a pause or timeoutfunction, (a countdown for 300 secounds or so)
3] a cancelbutton that allows the user to terminate the script before shutdown.exe starts.

This is how I start shutdown.exe

Set oShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
oShell.CurrentDirectory = "C:\Windows\system32"
oShell.Run "C:\Windows\shutdown.exe -s -f"

Could somebody help me with this, please!

[ALL]

ok yes that is possable, but not eassy. Dependiing if you are using more of a visual basic application rather than a visual basic script, because if it's a vbscript you cannot display a message box and have a timer, because when you use a msgbox it stops the script from running completely, until the user responds. However, there is a way around this. If you make 2 vbscripts, one to ask the question and write to a file, and the other the check the file, then yes it is possable.

my suggestion, use another language to do this sort of thing, such as VB.NET/VB6/Delphi or even PHP can do it eassier than VBS.

-ALL