[reboot] Forum Topics

I am looking for a way to reboot the system and launch the program with elevated permission without user interaction after the first time the program is launched. The program I am trying to write is for new system. Part of the setup I want to perform system updates then …

I am in a class doing a lab simulation. They are usually very straight forward. But this one, I am left hanging. So either I am really missing something or something went terribly awry. You can only go so wrong with a simulation, though. Set up a RAID 5 using …

My acer aspire 5735 laptop wont reboot, it load and freezes on loading windows. If I try rebooting in safe mode it freezes also on loading drives and gives a sound. if I try repairing windows it fails to locate hdd as if it has no hdd...please help

I need urgent help. **When i turn on my laptop, it reboot and/or SCAN whole laptop with C Drive.** How to solve this? Thanks in advanced.

So I was working on my computer and everything was fine and then all of a sudden it restarts itself and i get this error about the win32 file. It tells me that my computer cant boot because of a missing or corrupr win32 file and to use yhe repair …

Hey all! I am trying to write a piece of code that will replace one of my system files on reboot with a new version of that file. Hopefully someone out there has some experience with this as I am stumped at the moment. Using: VB.NET 2012 Using MoveFileEx Public …

Hi, after searching a bit on the web I'm getting mixed messages about whether there's a difference between a hard and soft reset on a PC (shutting down vs. restarting). I know that shutting down removes power from all the cards and drives, but I'm specifically wondering about clearing memory. …

Hi Daniweb! I'm going nuts here, this is my first IT problem I as a softwaredeveloper hasn't been able to solve myself... I'm just not that much hardware guy as I wanted to really be I guess.. :( *I have written a short synopsis of my problem, since my post …

Hi, I've been experiencing an odd computer problem where my windows7 PC will reboot itself after about 2-3 minutes of being turned on. It happens if I login and start web surfing or watching a video, or any sort of normal computer activity. It happens if I don't touch it …

Hey guys, I've searched all over the web for help but couldn't find anything, so I've decided to give up and come here. Here's my problem: I want to be able to run system restore automatically. NOT to create restore points, but to restore the computer to either the most …

Hi Is there any function similar to "Wake on Lan" that can reboot a remote computer such as "Reboot on Lan". The problem is that I sometimes need to reboot a remote computer that is not responding, at all. I hope that someone can help me.

I was thinking of making a server (not anytime soon) but it would be VERY powerful. Basically to run a website which might or might not be as huge as I would hope, but anyway... Since ready up on linux (I use to be on windows but hopefully soon to …

I figured out how to use time in C since the last time I asked a question here. :cool: My new dilemma is that I was wondering if its possible to save user input in a C program so that when the program is closed and executed again it will …

Several weeks ago I installed Win 7 over Vista on a 64-bit HP desktop. Now after a routine reboot atempt machine acts as if it were dead except the green light on the back showing power on. What now? To make maters worse I had the same problem and found …

Hi, I'm new to this forum and would like to ask a question relating to C#. I am trying to make my custom OS, and shutting it down, but I am encountering a problem. Here is what I have so far: [CODE]using System; using Cosmos.Compiler.Builder; namespace CosmosBoot1 { class Program …

Occasionally when I sign in to Windows Live Messenger, it signs me in but upon doing so, the whole system hangs/freezes (Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn’t work, cursor won’t even move) so I have to hard reboot. This doesn’t happen every time, but has been recently happening with greater frequency. I’m using Windows …

Last night I was trying to install a new vista theme to my computer. Not really know what I was doing I think I deleted something important. After I rebooted and logged on this pop-up shows up: dwm.exe - Unable To Locate Component This applicatoin has failed to start because …

I have a desktop XP machine that in the last 2 weeks started shutting down randomly and rebooting. It does it now continuously even when trying to start in safe mode... it won't even get that far. I can get into the bios, but it doesn't seem to get me …

I am having a new problem with an older laptop and need some advice. When running a virus scan (Avira free edition and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware) I get the BSOD. Now I'm not sure that it is because of a sneeky virus that's causeing the computer to shut-down and restart, because …

Don't know exactly what happned but I'm starting to think my wife killed my pc... long story short... my wife plugged in a the audio cord from my gtx 285 to my clr_cmos pins. Upon booting up she said a screen came up asking which CMOS settings to use and …

It seems that I caused quite a stir and some arguments among some of my readers with the likes of my [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story254705.html"]5 *nix Myths Busted[/URL] and the ever popular [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story256070.html"]Retraction: 5 *nix Myths Busted[/URL], when I referred to rebooting systems. I never thought that something so benign would cause such …