How do I schedule an automatic reboot to occurr nightly? I tried scheduling shutdown.exe to run at 11:30 PM CDT nightly flagged for a reboot, but it did not work. Any suggestions?

Not too sure which command you used to shutdown the machine but try the following :

Open Scheduled Tasks and browse to your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder and find the executible file "Shutdown"

When you finish go to the Advanced settings:

The "Run" line should look like this "C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe" now add the following to the end so it will look like this
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 01"

-r will make your system restart, you could use -s to shutdown the system.

Have you got the latest service pack updates on your machine?

Check out this Microsoft site, might help explain why it doesn't work
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;814761

That is the proggy I was trying to run, I flagged with / instead of -, maybye that was why.

If your talking about a scheduled task, then follow these steps:

1) Set a password for your XP account (you have to do this otherwise scheduling tasks will fail)

2) Go into Control Panel
3) Double click Scheduled Tasks
4) Click "add a new task"
5) Go through the wizard and browse for the specific file.
6) You MUST set a password.

That may have been why it failed in the first place. I may hafta set up a seperate admin account to perform these tasks so that my main account is not under pw (parent reasons).