Is there any way THIS can be done?

[PC Savior]

I'm looking for a way to have a PC running Windows 98 reboot automatically at a specific time. (ie: at the end of the workday) I want it to be able to automatically do a 'restart' at a certain time.

If anyone knows of such a program/script/etc. please let me know. Thanks in advance.

[Grizzly]

That's a pretty easy thing to do with NT/2000/XP, but 9X is a little more of a stretch. I did come across this utility:

http://www.olegon.com/download.htm (see OAK Shutdowner)

I've never downloaded it, or tried it out myself, as I haven't had Win9X installed on *any* machine in well over 4 years now. So try using this with your own discretion.

Good luck.

[PC Savior]

My PC here at the office still has 98 on it. It SHOULD be upgraded to 2K soon. How would it be done then? I'll try that utility on 98 for now. Thanks.

[Grizzly]

Quick clarification before I explain:

Windows 2000, and Windows XP are all built on the "NT" kernal, and are actually different revisions of "NT 5.0" I just wanted to preface my message with that to avoid any confusion. There's a lot of people who don't know that little tidbit of information, so when I start refering to "NT", people get confused and start thinking about the old NT 3.0,4.0 operating systems.

For a long time now, Microsoft has built an "NT Resource Kit", such as this one for Windows 2000.

The NT Resource Kit has always had a neat little command-line utility called "shutdown.exe". You can easily write a BATCH file which calls "shutdown.exe", and schedule that BATCH file to be run every 24 hrs using the NT "AT scheduler". Here's an example of people talking about using it (syntax, format, etc):
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._20243241.html