ShutDown NOW! 4.6.0.3

ShutDown NOW! (short: SHDN!) is a well known shutdown utility since 1997, which works with the old MS-Windows 95, 98, ME and NT4 (with MS Internet Explorer v5.x installed), - and also works well with modern Microsoft operating systems, like MS-Windows 2000 and XP. - ShutDown NOW! can shut down your computer comfortably, professionally and securely, supporting all capabilities provided by the installed operating system, and additionally offers a big variety of tricky features you never will find elsewhere.

ShutDown NOW! has built-in more than 5 different timer/countdown features for up to 1,000 planed events, provides password security with many options for to secure SHDN! itself, as well as the access to some Windows features, like REGEDIT, Windows built-in shutdown, TaskManager, etc.

SHDN! further can eject, load and watch all kinds of removable devices (has its own Device-Manager built-in), if a medium is insert, or not, and eject and retract only insert ones, multithreaded, prior to system shutdown, or anytime while working with Windows, by using the keyboard. - Also a keyboard- or pre-shutdown supported feature of this software is it, to empty pre-defined directories, either normally or securely, if you like. - For sure, SHDN! can also start applications, can bypass user-loged on message (MS-Windows ME), has an auto-logon feature, can alert the user before shutdown, has a great variety of commandline-options, incl. a simple remote shutdown function, can initialize sleeping HDs before shutdown, has a "PlayGround" window, which can be hidden behind the borders of the screen, like a tool-bar, and which contains shortcut-buttons to all shutdown options, the "Timer-Event List" and an overview of important settings, has a built-in logging-feature to log all MS-Windows starts and shutdowns, and so on.