"Char Jackson" wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:36:46 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote:

Laptop running an IP camera server at a remote site.

Lid is kept open.

Camera server gets flaky every so often and we have no clue why,
but a reboot fixes it.

Seems logical to schedule something that reboots the laptop once
or twice a day.

Is there a "best" way to do this? (i.e. minimum chance of having
to ask somebody at the site to turn the thing back on...)

I think you'd be fairly safe by scheduling "shutdown /r" to run once
or twice a day.
Check it out at a Command Prompt by typing "shutdown /?" to see all of
the options.

I would recommend to use the /f parameter as well. This will Force stuck
operations to be closed (rather than the system waiting\prompting).