Comments on: Schedule Windows to Automatically Restart

By: Dancingbear

Dancingbear — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:56:21 +0000

Works like a champ!
Have not tested the auto password yet, but hope it works.
I wonder if there is a way to make it instantly go to screensaver mode after login, so it loads all the stuff, but still needs a pw for anyone to actually get in. Is there an add-on string for that in shutdown.exe?

By: Burume

Burume — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:57:32 +0000

It is jumping like dog
And work more than fine
Nice

By: auto reboot?

auto reboot? — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:27:56 +0000

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By: Don

Don — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:18:53 +0000

The shutdown.exe file you hav available for download here will NOT work with W98 as it is specific to Win NT systems.

By: Neros

Neros — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:29:12 +0000

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By: Matt Timken

Matt Timken — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:24:19 +0000

I would explore the idea of using a small UPS with a programmable interface (e.g. an APC Smart-UPS 1000) with an agent on the XP system.
Set the UPS to shutdown the pc, then sleep for the required time, then restart. The XP system must be set to restart when power is applied (should be in the BIOS).

By: John Ward

John Ward — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:03:02 +0000

Dean, in theory you would need a network card that allowed wake-on-lan and an other device that could send the wake on lan signal. I’ve never tried it myself.

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:37:32 +0000

I’m running XP on a remote site serving a weather station on an island in northern Ontario Canada powered by a solar panel system. I would like to shut down the XPpc during the night and have it restart in the early morning. Can the shutdown.exe command include parameters to time the restart over greater periods of inactivity?
I have remote access via http://www.logmein.com which will allow a reboot but can not let me start a dormant machine.
Any help wold be appreciated, reply here or to my email:
-email removed. People have bots just looking for this stuff so that they can spam you. Leaving your email in the email field is good enough.-JW

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:32:12 +0000

Aaron: You can schedule most PCs to startup at a certain time from the BIOS.

By: motie38

motie38 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:12:11 +0000

The shutdown.exe is included in Windows XP in the windows\system32 folder. No need to download it.
@ Dave Scheduled tasks work on a computer that is locked or logged off.
@ Lucifer and kijana and Joe If you don’t have tweakui, you can still do automatic logon by editing the registry and adding these three string values in the following location, substituting the username and password to your actual ones.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
“DefaultUserName”=”Username”
“DefaultPassword”=”Password”
“AutoAdminLogon”=”1″