For various reasons I have a need to restart an XP Home
PC on a daily basis. Does anyone have some simple
scripting / task advice on how to achieve this? I was
thinking of simply making a .bat file with the restart
command in it and scheduling it with the built in
scheduler. However I am unfamiliar with the command
syntax and commands needed within the .bat file to
achieve the desired result. Anyone got a quick and dirty
solution?
Many thanks in advance and I hope I posted this in the
right section

Peter Whale wrote:

> For various reasons I have a need to restart an XP Home
> PC on a daily basis. Does anyone have some simple
> scripting / task advice on how to achieve this? I was
> thinking of simply making a .bat file with the restart
> command in it and scheduling it with the built in
> scheduler. However I am unfamiliar with the command
> syntax and commands needed within the .bat file to
> achieve the desired result. Anyone got a quick and dirty
> solution?
> Many thanks in advance and I hope I posted this in the
> right section
Hi

Shutdown.exe that comes with WinXP should do the job.

In a command prompt, run Shutdown.exe /? for help.


--
torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of
the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...r/default.mspx

Thank you very much. That command live with some
arguements should be perfect in a batch file set to run
using task scheduler. Many thanks for the prompt and
helpful response.
>-----Original Message-----
>Peter Whale wrote:
>
>> For various reasons I have a need to restart an XP
Home
>> PC on a daily basis. Does anyone have some simple
>> scripting / task advice on how to achieve this? I was
>> thinking of simply making a .bat file with the restart
>> command in it and scheduling it with the built in
>> scheduler. However I am unfamiliar with the command
>> syntax and commands needed within the .bat file to
>> achieve the desired result. Anyone got a quick and
dirty
>> solution?
>> Many thanks in advance and I hope I posted this in the
>> right section
>Hi
>
>Shutdown.exe that comes with WinXP should do the job.
>
>In a command prompt, run Shutdown.exe /? for help.
>
>
>--
>torgeir, Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn
Norway
>Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version
of
>the 1328 page Scripting Guide:
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...er/default.msp
x
>.
>