Java Program To Shutdown Computer in Windows

1. Introduction

In this tutorial, We'll learn how to shut down computers in java using a command "shutdown -s -t". It takes time when you want to do shutdown the computer.

2. Java Program To Shutdown Computer

The below program takes the number of seconds as input and will use the Runtime class to execute the windows command with the help of exec() method.

package com.java.w3schools.blog.java.program.to;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Scanner;

/**
 * 
 * Shutdown in java.
 * 
 * @author JavaProgramTo.com
 *
 */
public class ShutdownComputer {

 public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

  Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);

  System.out.println("Enter the time that you want to shutdown after some amount of time : ");
  Double timeInSeconds = scanner.nextDouble();

  Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
  Process p = runtime.exec("shutdown -s -t " + timeInSeconds);

  System.exit(1);
  

 }

}

3. Conclusion

In this article, We've seen how to shut down the computer in java with windows operating systems. The example is shown with the Runtime class exec() method.

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