Shutdown.exe questions

No big emergency today was just screwin around and I am trying to figure something out.

My so ALWAYS leaves his computer on usually all night so I wanted to automatically shut it down at 9pm.

So I created a new shortcut on my desktop called "SHUTDOWN"
I named it shutdown in the wizard as it was creating it pointing to "system32"--->Shutdown.exe

By putting -s -t 30 in the shortcut by editing it under properties it will wait 30 seconds then shut down.
HERE IS MY QUESTION.................

Unless someone clicks on that shortcut it does no good so I tried to
"Add a Schedule Task" pointing to the shortcut on my Desktop. so at 9PM the task starts and the computer should shut down. It does not.
I get a flash of a Black screen "CMD" and then nothing.

There are probably programs to do this another way but I am the kind of person that will not stop till I figure it out!
this is how I described what I did to another friend of mine that just threw up his arms and said "UH"? I should have known better SOoooo....
I will ask the almight computer Guru's at majorgeek cus "YOU GUYS KOW EVERYTHING"!!!!

RIGHT CLICK ON DESKTOP
CLICK "NEW" THEN SHORTCUT
WHEN THE WIZARD OPENS UP NAME IT SHUTDOWN

RIGHT CLICK ON THE NEW SHORTCUT AND GO TO PROPERTIES
YOU WILL SEE SOMETHING LIKE %windir%\system32\SHUTDOWN.exe
ADD TO IT (SPACE)-s(SPACE)-t(SPACE)360
THE NUMBER 360 STANDS FOR THE NUMBER OF SECONDS BEFORE SHUT DOWN

600= 10 MINUTES
3600=60 MINUTES

IF YOU WANT IT TO SHUTDOWN EVERY NIGHT AT 10PM LET ME KNOW
I CAN DO THAT TO



TO SHUT IT DOWN EVERY NIGHT AT 11PM DO THE FOLLOWING

START----->
CONTROL PANEL----->
ADD SCHEDULE TASK----->
WHEN THE WIZARD OPENS GO TO "BROWSE" AND FIND THE DESKTOP THEN FIND YOUR PROGRAM "SHUTDOWN.EXE"
SET IT FOR EVERYDAY----->
TIME 9PM----->
ENTER THE PASSWORD THAT YOU NEED TO LOG IN ON. (WILL NOT WORK UNLESS YOU HAVE A LOG-ON PASSWORD)
AND ENTER

MAKE SURE YOU SHUTDOWN EXE HAS 7200 SECONDS ON IT (2 HOURS AND YOUR DONE!

 

Thank you it works like a charm!!!!!