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Delayed Re-Boot?
On 30/05/2013 3:25 PM, Bert wrote:
In Yousuf Khan wrote: I'm thinking your choice would be to put the PC into a hibernate state, and then reawaken it with Wake-On-LAN command? The hibernate is nearly identical to a power-off. Then he might just as well do a full shutdown of the PC. But WoL doesn't work when you do a full shutdown. He'd trade the small additional time it takes to boot compared to recovery from hibernation with the advantage of cleaning out the cobwebs that accumulate in a machine that's been running too long without being rebooted. Maybe Windows 7 doesn't suffer from this the way XP did, but I wouldn't bet on it. Windows 7 is far and away superior to XP in this respect, I've got a W7 laptop that does mostly standby's and hibernates, but only does full reboots after patch updates. Of course, there are patch updates at least once every month, so it gets rebooted at least once a month, so I haven't really tested its reliability over longer periods. But a machine that doesn't get rebooted for a month is nothing to sneeze at, especially a Windows machine. But besides, this is irrelevant the OP specified right from the beginning that the standard reboot doesn't work because the power doesn't get cut-off from the webcam for long enough to reset it. A full shutdown cannot be gotten out of except by physical presence at the console of the machine itself. On the other hand, from the description I'd bet that this requires "Wake On WAN" rather than "Wake on LAN," since the PC sounds like it's probably on another network segment from the poster's other PCs. The process for Wake on WAN is slightly different from Wake On LAN. Well, yes, Wake on WAN is just a specialized form of Wake on LAN. Yousuf Khan |
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