E-ReAlm is an useful application that allows you to create programmed alarms to help you remember all your dates and appointments. This alarms can be set to go off once only, or once a year, a month, a week, a day… at any hour of the day. You can also add a text to the alarm, as well as a sound that will be played when the alarm goes off.The interface was designed to be the most intuitive and simple, as you can get to all options from the main window. The hidden mode and the icon tray menu, allow you to have E-ReAlm opened (so that alarms can go off) while you work with your computer, without having the program’s window in screen.

great find, rashid malik. do you also happen to have a programme that you can recommend to me that works like a 'sleep' function on win xp. i like listening to mp3s on my comp as i go to sleep but don't want to keep my computer running all night. ideally i'd like to set it to automatically shut down after, say, 20 minutes. any ideas?

great find, rashid malik. do you also happen to have a programme that
you can recommend to me that works like a 'sleep' function on win xp. i
like listening to mp3s on my comp as i go to sleep but don't want to
keep my computer running all night. ideally i'd like to set it to
automatically shut down after, say, 20 minutes. any ideas?

Here is one http://cc.x2plastic.com/#features

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Automation_Utilities/Shutdown_Timer_by_Egynile.html

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Access_Control_Utilities/Auto_Shutdown.html

http://download.soft-231-33385.butterflydownload.com/dshutdown/

http://download.soft-19-7372.butterflydownload.com/shutdown-monster/

wow, thanks for those links! will give one of them a shot tonight!

I've got to check this out. I need to set an alarm often because I don't know about you guys, but time flies when I'm on the computer and the next thing I know, I'm late!