KShutDown is a Free Cross Platform Shutdown utility. With this utility you can shutdown you computer at a given time. KShutDown is an utility that comes in handy when your PC needs another couple of hours to finish doing a work, for example to finish a download from the internet, but you just can’t sit around and wait for it to end.

This Free Multi Platform Computer Shutdown Utility Software KShutDown also has features to turn off your computer, restart it, lock the screen or end the current session. The Free Computer Shutdown Tool program does not execute shutdown -h to shutdown your machine(that is way too rude for KDE) but fortunately uses the KShutDown,  by default from the KDE Desktop Manager for shutting down and rebooting. Thus, the shutdown process will start with logout and also save all KDE modifications for the user!

This Free Multiplatform Shutdown Manager also offers functions such as stopping a media player or killing a PPP or a PPPoE connection. It even offers support for a command line and the desktop communication Protocol(DCOP), so an user can use it to schedule a custom command at a certain hour when they won’t be around the computer. There’s also a system tray icon and support for visual and audio notifications when a task nears its scheduled time.
A great thing Free Computer Shutdown Utility Software is that the basic actions like turning off computer, restart computer, locking a  session or ending the current session can be configured to use one of the 3 methods available.

Thee first method is KDE, which will use KDM to complete the scheduled tasks, the second method is forcing the shutdown/restart/screensaver command (shutdown -h now, reboot and xscreensaver-command -lock).Using the second way is generally not recommended and should only be used when there are no other alternatives. The third method allows the user to run a custom command. For all three methods, there’s the possibility to run a custom command before the action which is very useful to say the least!

The user can set all the options from the program settings window which can be found by following the menu settings and configure KShutDown. It is from this setting windows, from the General section, you can also create a shortcut on the Desktop or in the KMenu, and also remove the links and configure the system tray icon.
If needed there is also a facility for the user to display a warning message before the action and also set a custom message. From the last section, Advanced, you can set KShutDown to lock the screen after login and close the cd-rom tray before logout. The visual and audio notifications can be configured from the notification settings found under the same settings menu.
Thus, to summarize up, this Computer Shutdown Utility Tool KShutDown Software is amazing with all the set of options that it provides to its users and can be a great help in times when you need the PC to automatically shut down at a scheduled time or after a download is over. The shutdown manager is sincere in geting its job done without any problems, but,  I sincerely wished that the software supported the Gnome Desktop Manager which would surely have made this application one of the very best in its category! You can Download Multiplatform PC Shutdown Manager KShutDown Software Free here.

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