On 10/18/2017 06:05 PM, B00ze wrote:
On 2017-10-18 11:55, T wrote:

Hi All,

I have a customer who forgets to shutdown his computer at
night (mainly because he doesn't know when he is coming or
going from the office and leaves it running).Â* It is
causing issues with the Volume Shadow Service (VSS).
(Takes about four days to crash.)

I never shut down my work computer, and have no issues with VSS. Can you
explain more?

He only powers off on Fridays. Cobian is set to use VSS to
back up and it does, until Thursday. Then Cobian complains about
not being able to contact VSS, so Cobian backs up without it.

If I go into Services and restart VSS, Cobian is happy again.
His Firefox gets draggy at about the same time too.


So I was going to set a task
shutdown.exe /r /f /t 300
at 3:00 am to reboot (/r) his machine.

And give all his programs 5 minutes (/t 300) to terminate
on their own before forcing the issue (/f).

When you do shutdown /t 300, programs are not told right then an there
that there will be a shutdown in 300 seconds. The delay is JUST for
humans. Programs will be told to shutdown at the end of the delay.

That I misunderstood. Thank you!


The only program I am concerned about is his Outlook,
which he leaves running all the time.Â* You guys see an
issue with what I want to do?

I don't think it'll be a problem. My own Outlook at work rarely closes
anymore (i.e. I close it but it keeps running in Task Manager) so I End
Task it constantly, and have not seen any corruption of my database.
Maybe my using End Task so often is what makes it not close anymore, I
don't know, but my emails are still all there and coming and going fine...

Best Regards,

I have task killed Outlook on several machines before and have never
had an issue.

Speaking with him yesterday, he only powers off on Friday.
The rest of the week, he exits Firefox and Outlook before
leaving the office.

I have to remember that the P in PC stands for "Personal".
I don't see it any more work to press "shutdown" after exiting
Outlook and Firefox, but he does.

With the Samsung (I am an authorized reseller of Samsung SSDs),
shutting down and starting up is really quick too.

Instead of having me reboot it at 3AM, he had me power it off at
10PM. Different strokes for different folks.