WMC Daily reboot?

[Chasseur]

Is there a way to schedule Windows to reboot daily, but only if Media Center is not currently recording?

 

[Aaron Ledger]

You can set up a scheduled task (look under administrative tools in the Control Panel) to execute “shutdown.exe /r”. I believe that it will respect the recording and not shutdown while recording, though I am not 100% certain so you might want to test it out first.

If you open a command prompt and type “shutdown /?” you can see all the possible flags available. I believe that if you added the /f flag that it would force the reboot even if recording.

[Chasseur]

I tried “shutdown.exe /r” as a scheduled task, but the computer rebooted even if media center is recording.

[Aaron Ledger]

Did you try the scheduled task option to not perform the task unless idle? This possibly may work to prevent the task from occurring during a recording.

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