The best way to turn on or turn off your computer

Shut Down Expert is a revolutionary recent software designed for programmed turn on and turn off of the computer and extended to support other programmable local and remote events.

Standby mode is energy conserving, because your entire computer switches to a low-power state. Devices, just like the monitor and hard disks, turn off and your computer uses less power. It's easy to return to work, because Standby leaves applications and files open on your desktop Standby is not appropriate for long term use and it has one important limitation: everything is in memory, not yet saved to the hard drive.

Allowing a computer to go into standby or hibernation and then waking it up as needed is a much smarter option. Certainly there are tasks that require the computer to be always on, but for other tasks there is often a better method, that helps you to save power and reduce the level of noise.

Shut Down Expert will give you the possibility to program your hibernating and shutdown hours.

Hibernate mode writes an image of what you're currently working on to a special file on your hard drive, and then shuts your computer almost completely off. It takes a bit longer than Standby, since it needs to write to your hard drive. Hibernate as well takes a bit longer to resume, since you must go through essentially the normal boot process, although in Windows XP your computer wakes faster from Hibernate than in previous versions of Windows. The advantage is that you can leave your laptop in Hibernate mode for days without any ill effect. When you start it back up, you'll see everything exactly as you left it. Hibernate is the perfect mode for shutting down for the night or even the weekend.

As computers take on more and more automated tasks, they seem to spend more and more time completely powered on. In many cases personal computers are left running all the day just to execute some tasks that the computer may do during non-working hours.

These are the main features of this software

• Download
• Send Message (this option will send a message to other computers)
• Message (this option will give a message alert)
• Capture Screen (to capture the screen in a bitmap)
• Close CD-ROM
• Eject CD-ROM
• Empty Clipboard
• Empty Recycle Bin
• Close Application (to close an application)
• Start Application (to execute an application)
• Wake Up (wake up the computer from Hibernation, Standby, Monitor Off and Screen Saver modes)
• Hibernate (hibernate the computer)
• Standby
• Screen Saver (to turn the screen saver on)
• Turn Off Monitor (to turn off the display)
• Log Off (to log off the current user)
• Restart (to restart the computer)
• Turn On (this option will hibernate the computer and will turn it on at the specified time)
• Turn Off (to turn off the computer)

· Custom keyboard events

Limitations of this software

• 20 days trial

· nag screen

What's new in this release

• support for Shut Down Expert SDK, to integrate Shut Down Expert in user applications
• recent command line interpreter to generate events from command line or batch file
• grouping possibilities for client computers, in this way you can generate remote events on more remote computers in the same time
• custom event support
• wake up remote computers through the Internet
• send private messages to other Shut Down Expert users
• delay startup applications with a number of seconds
• recent remote event communication protocol
• auto update notification
• now you can transform your Pocket PC/Smart Phone in a powerful remote control, using Shut Down Expert - Mobile Client
• Wake-up Manager - manage the applications that will start after the system is waked up (resumed).
• Windows Vista support - please note that for some features, like "Autologon" or "Disable Task Manager" you have to run it as administrator (elevated). Do not set Shut Down Expert to run permanently as administrator, otherwise it will be blocked at startup by Windows Defender.

· some bug fixings and improvments...