Prevent windows from restarting

[Cue]

I have recently bean using the scheduler feature in various cleaning programs.
Its working fine except there is one program that restarts the computer.

I don't know witch one, as this is a long process and I cant sit over it and watch it.

So the question is.
Is there a program that can prevent a restart?

 

[MrUnknown]

you could run all the scheduler commands while you are sitting at the computer and see which one causes the reboot.

 

[NYJimbo]

I have recently bean using the scheduler feature in various cleaning programs.
Its working fine except there is one program that restarts the computer.

I don't know witch one, as this is a long process and I cant sit over it and watch it.

So the question is.
Is there a program that can prevent a restart?

Do you mean a real restart or a crash?.

You could check the EVENT LOG VIEWER for alot of info (is this vista or xp or somethign else ?).

 

[Cue]

you could run all the scheduler commands while you are sitting at the computer and see which one causes the reboot.

Its not like that.
I schedule programs like superantispyware, Avira, AVG and more to scan this and that drive at intervals.

Like Avira runs at 01:00, AVG at 02:30 and so forth.
One of the programs that I run make the computer reboot.

 

[Cue]

Do you mean a real restart or a crash?.

You could check the EVENT LOG VIEWER for alot of info (is this vista or xp or somethign else ?).

Its a restart on XP Pro, I am 97% sure its not a crash.
Event viewer is useless (as usual), as I cant see anything in the event viewer until services start to booting up as windows boots.

 

[mike_tech]

First of all i have got to ask, is this the one computer you are running avg and avira on etc? coz man your gonna have alot of conflicts and problems. Even if you have disabled the real time protection etc of the other programs, multiple spyware and anti-virus programs dont work well in groups!

What could be happening is you are using alot of memory resources and over time, scan after scan the computer/lappy is overheating a possible reason for a suddent restart.

Also there could be a ram issue not being able to cope with the memory resources that are need for the tasks you have scheduled.

As for finding which one is causing the restart, its diagnostics time. Your gonna have to watch and see which is restarting the computer.

You might find that another process or program may well be interfering with your schedules.

more info would be great, is this a laptop or desktop? is this a standalone computer you are running all these anti-virus/spyware programs etc?

 

[seedubya]

Surely you can tell from eventvwr at what time the system is restarting. If your schedule is as tight as you say then it should be a simple matter to figure out which program is the culprit.

 

[lawson_jl]

Event Viewer useless? Nope Technician Fail.

 

[Cue]

First of all i have got to ask, is this the one computer you are running avg and avira on etc? coz man your gonna have alot of conflicts and problems. Even if you have disabled the real time protection etc of the other programs, multiple spyware and anti-virus programs dont work well in groups!

What could be happening is you are using alot of memory resources and over time, scan after scan the computer/lappy is overheating a possible reason for a suddent restart.

Also there could be a ram issue not being able to cope with the memory resources that are need for the tasks you have scheduled.

As for finding which one is causing the restart, its diagnostics time. Your gonna have to watch and see which is restarting the computer.

You might find that another process or program may well be interfering with your schedules.

more info would be great, is this a laptop or desktop? is this a standalone computer you are running all these anti-virus/spyware programs etc?

I have bean doing this manually with these programs before I figured out I could use the built in scheduler.
Its never bean a problem if I disable the real rime monitoring in these programs.

This is a powerful desktop computer, it has enough resources.
Its not over heating, I'm sure.

 

[Cue]

Surely you can tell from eventvwr at what time the system is restarting. If your schedule is as tight as you say then it should be a simple matter to figure out which program is the culprit.

Yes, I have to look into that.
Thank you.

 

[Cue]

Event Viewer useless? Nope Technician Fail.

Its amazing how little this thing tells you.
Its basically the only tool MS gives to monitor what windows is doing and what is happening.
It just gives the most basic errors, but you cant monitor anything suspicious in there.

 

[l337]

event viewer can tell you almost anything if u read it right...

for example event viewer leaves a log when it starts so that way u can tell what time the pc was restarted... and so many more things its not funny....

 

[ComputerClinic]

Event viewer is a very useful tool. It can tell you when a crash happens, when a program fails, and lots of other useful info.

 

[Pc Fixed Right]

assuming it's a crash use the whocrashed utility...otherwise look in event viewer since it tells you date, time, source and type of event etc...knowing the time should give u a pretty good idea what program you have running at around that time frame.

 

[Cue]

Ok, the event viewer is extremely usefully, I would not want to go without it!

I'm just saying, with many difficult errors the event viewer is quiet as a mouse and useless as a candle in a snowstorm

However I find that many times it does not tell "you" anything about a big crash or errors.
Like having to use "whocrashed", and many times there is no mention in the event viewer about a crash.
And in my case, there is no mention about the system shutting down or crashing.

 

[frostbyte5014]

You can run "shutdown -a" after each command and that should stop the reboot. An old trick is renaming the shutdown.exe file.

 

[Cue]

You can run "shutdown -a" after each command and that should stop the reboot. An old trick is renaming the shutdown.exe file.

Thats brilliant!
Very simple, I will give this one a try.

Thank you.

 

[frostbyte5014]

Thats brilliant!
Very simple, I will give this one a try.

Thank you.

Ehh, I have my moments. Hope it works.

 

[Cue]

Ehh, I have my moments. Hope it works.

Yes you do
This seems to have done the trick!

Thank you all.