![]() As you use your computer to load and run, then close that flawed software over and over again, the system memory becomes cluttered up with remnants of that flawed software and the computer becomes slower and slower because it has less and less free memory to use to run its software. It is all the product of human brains which means that it is flawed. Then: there is no such thing as perfect software. Ergo, the computer POWERS DOWN and will not, cannot restart. When the blades can’t turn, the power supply overheats the voltages go outside the power supply tolerances and poof: RAM is damaged, or the processor is smoked or those old capacitors in the voltage regulator in the power supply give up and the power supply turns off by blowing its internal fuse. Most often a failure occurs when the little cooling fan in the power supply has worn it’s little bronze bushing to the point that when it stops turning, the fan motor rotor and blade settle in that worn bushing which allows the blades to drag when it is powered on. But, when you shut them down by turning the power off, things go cold almost instantaneously. ![]() As long as they sit there running with the internals powered on and “warmed up” all is good. Have you ever noticed that light bulbs ONLY fail when you turn them on? That is generally the case with computers as well. Here’s a short video walking through the process: Your password is not stored, but rather a hash or encryption of your password, that’s of no use to anyone other than Windows, is stored. The task actually has to log in itself before it can begin. This is because we’ve specified that it should run whether or not you’re logged in. You can review the remaining Conditions and Settings tabs if you like, but the default settings there are just fine for this simple task we’ve created. Run “shutdown” in a Windows Command Prompt for even more options.) ![]() (Alternately you can use “/l” to simply log off, or “/s” to shut down the computer. The program I’ll start is called shutdown, which is included in Windows, and the argument passed to it will be “ /r” for restart. The action I want to happen is to “Start a program” (the default selection). I’ve set the trigger to happen “Daily”, every day, at 1:00 AM.Ĭlick OK, then click on the Actions tab, and once again click on the New… button: Next, click on the Triggers tab, and then the New… button: I’ve set a Name for the task of “Nightly reboot”, selected “Run whether user is logged on or not”, and checked “Run with highest privileges”. The first tab of the Create Task dialog is the General tab: In Task Scheduler, click on the “ Create Task…” item: Of course, if you’re a tiled start screen user, you can simply start typing “schedule” and get directly to Task Scheduler that way: ![]() One of the results is “Schedule tasks” which is exactly what we want. Then, in Control Panel, use its search feature in the upper right to search for “schedule”: Since I live in Windows 8’s desktop, not the tiled start screen, I find the easiest way to locate Task Scheduler in Windows 8.1 is to fire up Control Panel by right clicking the Start icon and clicking on Control Panel: Well, Task Scheduler is absolutely the way to go here.Īs it turns out you have everything you need already included in Windows, and while I’ll show you for Windows 8.1, this approach should work with almost any version from XP on.
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