Schedule Restart 1

[EllieFant]

Hi,

I have a computer running Windows XP (Home Edition) and I would like to be able to schedule my computer to restart itself at a certain time each day.

I am on sattelite internet and it seems that my email tends to hang up (and then bounce) if the computer isn't restarted about every 24 hours or so. Sometimes I am not home on the weekends to do this and would like to not to have to worry about it.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for your help!

Ellie
**Using Access 97 at work**
**Using Access 2000 at home**

 

[pdxphx]

Click Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Scheduled Tasks. Double click Add Scheduled Task. Click Next, and then click the browse button and browse to the C:\Windows\System32 folder and find the shutdown.exe file and click open. Choose the schedule options you want, enter the user and password of an administrative user on your pc, click next, put a check mark in the box that says "Open Advanced properties for this task when I click Finish" and click finish. The properties page will open and just add a -r at the end of the run line ( it should look like this c:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -r). Your pc will now reboot at the scheduled time.

 

[EllieFant]

Thank you SO MUCH!
Ellie
**Using Access 97 at work**
**Using Access 2000 at home**

lena.wood@starband.net

 

[EllieFant]

I did what you said and it restarted up to the point where you need to choose what user to sign in as. I am the only user (besides guest - which isn't turned on). I need the computer to completely start up. Is there a way to make it automatically sign on? I didn't have a password on my account but the schedule wouldn't run without one.

Thanks again for your help, Ellie
**Using Access 97 at work**
**Using Access 2000 at home**

lena.wood@starband.net

 

[pdxphx]

Try this link...there are two methods listed. Try the alternate method at the bottom of the page first, and if that doesn't work, try the registry edit.

How to Enable Automatic Logon in Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315231

Good Luck