Can u set pc to auto-shutdown?

Control panel > Power options.

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Hibernate is supposed to do that but many people find it's a quirky feature. But give it a try.

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Thnx but does hibernate mean it will shut down completely?
Does it shut off only once when I aplly it?

There is no difference between hibernate and turning your computer off as far as power consumption. Even a powered down computer will still use a trickle of electricity, just like a TV. The difference is that when your computer hibernates, it saves the current desktop (with apps and files being used), and when turned back on it will restore that desktop.

John

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Hibernate first saves the contents of the RAM into a special file (saves the state of the computer prior to hibernation) then shuts down. When you turn the computer back on later it starts up from the file, as a result it will resume from in the state at which the computer was in prior to hibernation.

Dimension 8200 2.2GHz
512MB RAM
GeForce3 Ti500
P992 Trinitron
WD Caviar 120GB SE
TB Santa Cruz
Altec Lansing ADA995
Liteon 16x DVD
Liteon 24X/10X/20X CD-RW
Conexant voice/data/fax modem
Linksys LNE100Tx 2.0
WinXP Pro