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You have seen the way how Mac OS X shutdown would prompt user with countdown message before its will shutdown automatically, this will prevent user from accidentally end the session.

Is there a way to change the Windows 7 "Shut down" default behaviour to include countdown timer in case I forget to save my works on time?

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  • You mean change the default behavior of the shutdown button?
    – soandos
    Jul 31, 2011 at 2:03
  • yup, change the default behaviour to contain countdown timer. argh, sorry for being long winded in my post when I'm a software developer.
    – thunber
    Jul 31, 2011 at 2:17
  • Not really possible, i dont think.
    – soandos
    Jul 31, 2011 at 2:18
  • Oh, it's a usability issue for MS to fix then.
    – thunber
    Jul 31, 2011 at 2:23
  • They have never had that feature in the 22 years I have been using Microsoft OS'es...I would not count on it any time soon.
    – KCotreau
    Jul 31, 2011 at 2:28

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Look at this, and change to default to hibernate. Not really what you want, but it will do the same thing (stop you from shutting it down accidentally).

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  • By the way, I was not copying you. I was in the process of making the screenshots and we basically were thinking the same thing. I was having trouble with the bottom one since every time I tried to use the screenshot program I use, it would close that menu I wanted to capture. I eventually went with print screen and pasted into paint, and cut what I wanted to a new file. I was just slow not doing it my usual way.
    – KCotreau
    Jul 31, 2011 at 2:50
  • Its fine, I was the one that upvoted you. Don't worry about it.
    – soandos
    Jul 31, 2011 at 2:56
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There is no countdown feature, but you can avoid the accidental shutdown like this:

You can change the default by Right-clicking the taskbar and going to Properties>Start Menu>Power button action and changing it to "Hibernate".

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  • Out of curiosity, and not sure its a good idea, but could you replace shutdown.exe with a program that called shutdown.exe -t 30? Forgetting about the side effects of course.
    – soandos
    Jul 31, 2011 at 2:26
  • If you could somehow incorporate the command shutdown -t 30 into an executable, not batch file, and name it the same, it very well might work. You bring up and interesting point though, he could create a batch file and put in somewhere convenient to shut down, but then he could just as easily hit that. As a side note, I always create a file reboot.bat with the command "shutdown -r -f -t 00" for systems that I access remotely so they do not get hung up waiting for a click on "End Task" if one should happen to inhibit a reboot.
    – KCotreau
    Jul 31, 2011 at 2:40
  • Its a bad idea as it would also (assuming that all it does is run shutdown.exe with preset arguments) override all the other functions of shutdown.exe. Should I post the source code/exe for such a program?
    – soandos
    Jul 31, 2011 at 2:42
  • That is up to you and how well you have tested it to know that you may not be causing problems.
    – KCotreau
    Jul 31, 2011 at 2:47
  • Too buggy to risk I think.
    – soandos
    Jul 31, 2011 at 2:57
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In Windows 7, Run Command, type

Shutdown -s -t 3600

And the PC will schedule a full shutdown in 1 hour.

You will also get a reminder 10 minutes (approx) before shutdown. You can abort shutdown using Shutdown -a

This link has the full range of possibilities http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/shutdown.mspx?mfr=true

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