Looking for a Shutdown Benchmark Program

[jim3anderson]

Searched and searched but have been unable to find a program that will give me a shutdown (not restart) time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[FinneousPJ]

Well, why don't you just shut down your computer and time it?

 

[jim3anderson]

I didn't even think of that! No, no. I need an actual program.

 

[FinneousPJ]

I'm not sure there is one. What would be the point?

 

[Raiddinn]

If you want to shut down quickly just reinstall windows and don't install any programs.

The more programs you install the longer it takes to shut down (and to start up).

Programmers can't account for things you install yourself so there is no program they can make that tells you if you are shutting down quickly or not.

At best you could get a program that tells you how long it takes, but FinneousPJ just told you a way to do that for free with stuff you already have like a clock.

 

[phatbuddha79]

I don't see the point of this benchmark app. If it shuts down in a reasonable amount of time, who cares?

 

[jim3anderson]

I don't understand the perceived ridiculousness of my question. It's primarily for research purposes and i need to monitor shutdown time with more precision than something like a wall clock could give me.

 

[FinneousPJ]

Stopwatch? :lol:

 

[jim3anderson]

 

[simon12]

If it shuts down it would need to close the program first so there is no such thing.

 

[jim3anderson]

Wouldn't a program that measures restart have the same problem? Because I've found quite a few of those.

 

[simon12]

No because when it restarts so does the program which recorded the time the restart started and than then record the time it finishes, but it could not know the time it was actually shut down.

 

[Raiddinn]

Yes, a restart timer can just record the exact second shutdown starts and the exact second that it loads itself again and then subtract.

There is no way for the computer to say, "OK, I am fully shut down now, hold on while I record this time somewhere".

 

[jim3anderson]

Hmmm. Well, that makes me wonder if I couldn't make something that cuts the timer down the split second before the shutdown command goes through.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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