Are your kids spending much of their all important time playing games on computers? If this is the case, then you must be looking to limit their gaming time, in order to make them utilize it in their studies. You can apply such limitation without being harsh to your kids, as ES Shutdown Scheduler 1.0.0 is there to help you out. The software lets you to effortlessly schedule the shutdown time for your system, thus limiting the time of PC usage. Using the utility, you can set the schedule with alert, permanent, or force mode for system shutdown, hibernate, restart, or log-off. Even the scheduled process can easily be modified or deleted, as required by the users. Both, the experienced and novice users can well-operate the features of the application.

The ES Shutdown Scheduler 1.0.0 has a small neatly framed interface with features assigned in different tabs. You can browse through all every features specifically and make the desired changes. The first ‘Schedule’ option is where you can Choose Process Mode to be Shutdown, Restart, or Hibernate, and set the Process Time for it. Set the time and type of Current Process, and Save the Changes. Also, you can even abort the scheduled process anytime you want. ‘Stats’ section is provided to display the details relating Current Time, Computer Name, Computer OS, Computer Up Time, and .Net Runtime Version. Next, using Logs, you can view the activity record of the program which can be printed or cleared, as needed. Further, for user’s supports, you’re provided Help/Contact tab. While scheduling the process, with Alert feature you can set the program to display a message before carrying out the specified action. The Permanent feature helps you to set a particular time for the process to be performed each day, automatically. Finally, with Force start, the program shuts down the system even if any program is not responding.

With the ES Shutdown Scheduler 1.0.0, you can get the system task like shut down, restart, etc, performed automatically at some specified time, along with limiting the PC usage time. The easy-to-configure features and the efficient performance of the program make it quite worthy of 3.5 rating points.