Andy S.

Can a Windows 2000 PC be restarted at say 6 oclock each morning automatically? Or do we need software to do this?

ozzy

You could schedule to run the shutdown command from a remote XP workstation or just use the Scheduler in 2000 to run a local shutdown command. Don't think 2000 ships with the shutdown utility, but you can get PsShutdown from Sys Internals

Stefan

suba

control panel / scheduled task

darlodge

As others have said, do it in Scheduled tools or via PsShutdown from Sys Internals.


If you had Windows XP you could have done it like this
Create a .bat file and then point a scheduled the task at the file.

The file needs to include the following:
Shutdown -r -f -t 5

This command will make the PC restart, close all open tasks without warning and display a warning that the PC will restart in 5 seconds.

NB Its not possible to stop this unless the user knows how to abort a system restart (shutdown -a)

Simple

Darren

Andy S.

I got that far, but where do i find the comand to shutdown and reastart?


Cheers for the replies

Andy S.

Cheers Mate will try that

darlodge

Andy, It won't work. I miss read and thought you had XP. Sorry mate

Sys Internals do have a product that will work though.

Darren

darlodge

Just realised that the shutdown tools is added if you install the Microsoft Windows 2000 Resource Kit.

I've got a copy at home of you like. It is however a licenced product so if you are planning to use it commerically you will need to buy a licence.

See here

Darren

ozzy

Andy, you won't find the command in Schedules. The schedule allows you to schedule any task. Since 2000 doesn't have it's own Shutdown command, you need to download a version and tell the schedule to run that external command (with any command line parameters) at whatever time you want.

So, if you download psshutdown.exe to c:\winnt\system32, then you could simply use the command "psshutdown -f -r -t 0"

-f = forces all apps to close, otherwise it may sit with a prompt asking you to close something
-r = does a reboot after the shutdown
-t 0 = immediate shutdown. you could use -t 10 for 10 second delay (or whatever)

The scheduler offers loads of options to repeat the command every day, weekdays, only at weekends, etc.. There's loads of options available.

Stefan

Andy S.

Tried this but every other shutdown I have to restore my active dektop?


I will try downloading psshutdown tomorrow!


PS thanks for the replies Guys

R1916v

use an external program like shutdown monster?

dharbige

Ahhh, psshutdown. Hours of fun! Especially the '-l' option.

cw42

iTrader: (1)

just leave it running andy, and download all your fav movies overnight!