I had this whole, big thing written out, but I refreshed the page by accident and now it is all gone >.< . So, I will put htis in short: How do you get Window 98 to automaticaly shutdown?

you want it to read your mind & shutdown on request? we do need a few details of what you want.

Sometimes you only need to enable power saving in cmos.

There are other posts where people want the system to start up at a certain time & shutdown at a later time. Dave, you are right, an inactivity timeout can be easy to implement.

Hi ZackStorm, Sonnysandiego, DAVEINCAPS, hello everyone, The easiest method is as stated by DAVEINCAPS, using power management in the bios to shutdown the computer during inactivity. This is if your bios has that option. Another option is to create a batch file that is launched by Task Scheduler at a certain time. Copy the following into notepad: rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx 1 Save the file as something like autoshutdown.bat Now open Task Scheduler and set it to launch the autoshutdown.bat file at a particular time. Best Regards, Mesich

You see, I did have it all written out in detail, but my "work" was erased when I accidently refreshed the page... I did searches, went through all of the methods, checked the CMOS, etc. Then I went to Microsoft's support website where I learned how to see if my chipset/CMOS was capatable with shuting down Win98 automaticaly. The conclusion was that my CMOS will not automaticaly shutdown Win98. It is an incapatability problem... Thanks for the help anyway.

Try Karen's Power Tools utilities. Link: http://www.karenware.com Don