Updated on 8/26/2008 with corrected information! Window’s simple shutdown command works well, but has some major drawbacks. The major one is that it will only schedule a reboot up to 10 minutes into the future (600 seconds). Linux’s shutdown command makes this easy, just issue the command ‘shutdown -r +60′ for example to reboot an hour in the future. No such luck in Windows, you need to download a separate program to do this. It is a sysinternals program, you might remember sysinternals from such utilies like FileMon and ProcessMonitor. The program we use for this is called PsTools and more specifically the file psshutdown.exe. [Download PsTools here] Place psshutdown.exe into a directory for future use, for this example we will use c:\tools\. Easiest Method: Type the following command into the command prompt: 1c:\tools\psshutdown.exe -r -f -c -t 02:00 /accepteula PSshutdown will respond with: 12345PsShutdown v2.52 – Shutdown, logoff and….

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