[hulud]

is there a way to set a scheduled task to restart the machine every day at 5am? i have looked for tit and not been able to find it... we keep having to restart the machine when i come in and the people off site depend on it for connectivity to the network, so i am hoping that i can set it to automatically restart at a given time as this usually seems to fix the problem.

thanks

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you can create a batch file with the command

shutdown -r

and then schedule that batch file

[dsenette]

you can create a batch file with the command

shutdown -r

and then schedule that batch file

[hulud]

cool i saved "restart.bat" with just the command shutdown -r and scheduled it to run every day at 5am. that sound right? thanks for your help.

[dsenette]

i would test the batch file first...just double click it...or save it to your c: drive and do run restart.bat

[hulud]

ok, it worked on my xp machine, but apparantly "shutdown" isnt a valid 2000 dos command?

[dsenette]

hmm..it should be...

[gerryf]

only with the resource kit installed.

download pstools

http://www.sysintern...es/PsTools.html

there is a shutdown tool for the commandline in it

[hulud]

thanks for your help guys, i think the file is now fixed!