Nanny Shutdown

de Tramp 05/11/2006 03:40

This tool will automatically shutdown your computer after consuming a
predefined time credit a day. I made this tool to temper the time my
kids were playing computer games.

You can apply a time credit to the total computer or to each user
individually. If you specify it at the user level, the first time the
user is logging on, he/she will be asked to specify the personal time
credit. You can stop and restart your computer as many times a day you
wish. The tool will take into account all those different timeslots.

- Version 1.1 supports multiple spoken languages.

- At the user level you can specify a unlimited time credit (shutdown
will never happen to this user)

- This tool is running in the system tray, as a 'power plug' icon. If
you hold the mouse pointer on it it shows your daily time credit left.

- During the last hour the user will be notified multiple times with
spoken warnings. (1hour - 30min - 15min - 10min - 5min - 1min). I
specially designed it this way so it will not interferes games with pop-
up screens. You will hear the messages even in the middle of your
favorite game.

- You can have Nanny Shutdown to start with each computer boot.

- Each day your time credit is refreshed. A new day start at midnight.

- If you ignore the vocal warnings, your computer will shutdown. If you
restart afterwards the computer will shutdown again after 5 minutes. Or
you should logon with a user who owns still time credit. Counters are
reset each day.

- You are free to change the content of the spoken messages. Just keep
in mind to respect the exact filenames and file type (.wav)
http://www.komma.be/freeware/nannyshutdown.htm