Prof Shutdown

Now you can save power and manage the shut down of all the machines on your network with effortless ease. Just install Prof Shutdown 3.5 on to your system and you restart, shutdown, logoff, hibernate, or wake up the networked machines altogether without even needing to visit them. Further you can also set the time for the particular action to take place thus saving your time and money. It works with same efficiency on both local and remote machines that are connected through network.

Prof Shutdown 3.5 has the small opening screen that has a clean interface. You can set the tasks for the local and remote machine easily with the given options. Add the task that open with a separate dialog box for making the selections. For adding the Task you need to select the Action from the drop down menu. Then write the comment relating to the task if required. Enable not to shows dialog, force, or to run only if logged on. With the Dialog feature’s set the message that would pop up in front of the user before the action is performed. Set the time for the pop up to appear before the action is performed. If sometimes you need to have any machine to stay ‘On’ for some reason then you can allow the Canceling option also. Then moving to the next step you need to set the time for the task. Schedule the tasks to be performed daily, weekly, once, and set the time for the action to take place. Schedule the task daily and also you can enable showing the multiple tasks. You can edit, delete or run the task when required and you can choose the Power Options Properties. It also contains the remoter shutdown dialog that would let you add the list of the computers you want to include for performing the actions.

Prof Shutdown 3.5 receives a well deserved score of 4 rating points for reducing power usage, limiting the use and managing the work of switching on and off for many systems altogether. It seamless functioning and advanced scheduling facility also adds to its accolades.

Prof Shutdown enables an administrator to schedule power management jobs to be executed on a local machine or multiple remote machines in a network. In the latter case, the tool is able to manage up to 1,000 machines all together at a specified time. A local machine can be scheduled to shutdown, reboot, hibernate, standby, log off current user session, lock computer, wake up from hibernate or standby mode, and display a popup message dialog. Networked machines can be scheduled to shutdown, reboot, hibernate, log off and wake up. Other major features include log file maintenance, command line support, and no need for a remote client installation.
Scheduling a job is easy and requires no special knowledge. Prof Shutdown offers a wizard-style scheduler that can guide you through all the steps in a point-and-click manner. You click on the "Add New Task" icon, select a job to execute (shutdown, reboot, etc.), and type in a message to be displayed in a popup dialog before a job is executed. Time of message display can be set up according to your preference. Then you will be prompted to add a remote machine by specifying its name or IP, login and password (if necessary). If a networked machine is not known, you can search for it using the Active Directory Search or scanning from IP range functions. The final step is to schedule the time when you want a job to be triggered.
Prof Shutdown will benefit network administrators since it lets them execute routine management jobs without ever having to leave their own workplace. They`ll have more focus on more important tasks, and less time spent on visiting each machine in an enterprise.