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Hi All,
I posted a thread in another forum, and was referred to this thread hoping someone here can be of help...
Does anyone have any clue about this innocuous looking dialog appearing every morning 8am?

In fact, if I switch on the system first time anytime after 8 am as well, then after 5-10 minutes of logging in, the same dialog comes up, only once and asks to restart in 5 minutes. :(

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Building on 's description and the pointers from and , the most reliable next step is to find the exact initiator of the restart in the System event log and then match that to a scheduled task or updater. In Event Viewer (Windows Logs -> System) filter for Event ID 1074 — entries with that ID record which process requested a planned restart and often include the executable path and reason text. Read the full event details (process name, account, and comment) to identify whether Windows Update, a third‑party updater, or a scheduled script is responsible.

After you have the event details, inspect scheduled tasks more deeply than just listing them. In Task Scheduler check the Triggers and Actions for any task set at 8:00 AM or tasks with “run missed” behavior. Enable Task History (right‑click Task Scheduler root -> Enable All Tasks History) so you can see what ran. To get a quick textual dump you can run:

schtasks /query /v /fo LIST > "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\scheduled_tasks.txt"

Open that file and search for “08:00” or for programs like shutdown.exe, vendor updater executables, or scripts.

If a task is the culprit, export it first (right‑click -> Export) before disabling or editing. If Event ID 1074 names Windows Update, change its install schedule or set notifications instead of automatic restarts. For stubborn cases use Sysinternals Autoruns to inspect scheduled entries and services, but avoid deleting items until you have an export and know what they do.

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Member Avatar for jholland1964

Hi, I looked at your other thread and one thing you said makes me curious:

am not able to make out any suspicious task which might be running that causes this regular restart.

You know it wouldn't HAVE to be a suspicious task, it could be something legal. But we have no idea what ANY of the programs are that you have looked at, checked, etc. just WHERE you have checked according to the other thread:

Registry (Windows Run keys), msconfig, services, scheduled tasks, etc.

It would certainly help us help you if we knew, by name, exactly what you found in all those places.

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Hello,
If it is built-in application, then have a look in the Windows event logs for any events occured at that time. Then google for the eventID and descriptions on the net. This should give you an idea what could have created the request for reboot. Or just let it reboot and then browse the event logs.

Look on sites like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GORgjn7kOBc
For how to access the event manager and browse it.

Also when the reboot message appears, then have a look in the task manager, for the list of applications. Often it is still listed there as not responding.

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