Re: windows 2000 server auto restart

Hello Andy,

You can run this as a startup script, creates a scheduled task and copies the shutdown.exe to a workstation:

;Create the scheduled task on remote workstation's
if not exist c:\winnt\tasks\at1.job at 05:00 /every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su shutdown.exe /r /t 120 /c "This computer will shutdown and restart automatically, please close your open applications. Your Administrator." /f

:Copy the shutdown.exe to remote workstation
if not exist c:\WINNT\system32\shutdown.exe copy "\\domainname\netlogon\shutdown.exe" "c:\WINNT\system32\shutdown.exe"

Or use just from the run line:

at 05:00 /every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su shutdown.exe /r /t 120 /c "This computer will shutdown and restart automatically, please close your open applications. Your Administrator." /f

Then you should find a scheduled task that runs daily at 5 AM with a timer of 120 seconds and prompts an info.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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I want to know how can I schedule auto reboot of windows 2000 server
from shceduled task. Is there any command or script? I did research
and I found shutdown.exe /r but that does not work and it requires
user intervention. I want to schedule and do this reboot
automatically.



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