I HATE when windows restarts in middle of night

[JohnnyScience]

Ok I'm getting really really annoyed with windows when it just decides to restart itself in the middle of the night.

I have programs & work that I leave open as I'm working on it - so the last thing I want is this stupid computer restarting itself when it feels like it in the middle of the night.

So how can I turn this off so that it ONLY restarts when it prompts me or I do it myself?

I DO NOT want this automatic restart option any more. STUPID.

 

[richc46]

Ok I'm getting really really annoyed with windows when it just decides to restart itself in the middle of the night.

I have programs & work that I leave open as I'm working on it - so the last thing I want is this stupid computer restarting itself when it feels like it in the middle of the night.

So how can I turn this off so that it ONLY restarts when it prompts me or I do it myself?

I DO NOT want this automatic restart option any more. STUPID.

Do you mean that it wakes from sleep or hibernate, by itself or you actually turn it off and it boots up by itself?

 

[Uber Philf]

It' wouldn't happen to be Windows update restarting your PC while your away?

 

[MacGyvr]

Ok I'm getting really really annoyed with windows when it just decides to restart itself in the middle of the night.

I have programs & work that I leave open as I'm working on it - so the last thing I want is this stupid computer restarting itself when it feels like it in the middle of the night.

So how can I turn this off so that it ONLY restarts when it prompts me or I do it myself?

I DO NOT want this automatic restart option any more. STUPID.

Only certain updates require the automatic reboot. In my experience, it happens very rarely. If your PC is rebooting that often, you probably have a hardware issue.

 

[Qdos]

I've noticed it happening too, when I leave it running because I want to record a TV program late at night it does that - goes to sleep... and the inexpliquably resumes at random on occasions during the early hours.

Suspect it could well be WMC updates causing this to occur

 

[rbmorse]

Click on the start button and then type

task scheduler

in the dialog box at the botton (the one that says "search programs and files). Take a look at all the goodies in the active tasks section, paying particular attention to "triggers" and see if you can identify a likely culprit.

Also,

 

[seekermeister]

If anything like I have experienced, it is probably a BSOD and you don't have it set to not automatically restart, so when you see it later, the BSOD may not be apparent. Check your Event Viewer and minidump folder to see if you find anything that correlates to when it happened.

 

[gregrocker]

Check Diagnostics>Performance log for that time period to see exactly what occurs.

Set Windows Updates to download but not install Updates, which will prompt you later to quickly (and more selectively) do it yourself.

See if that helps.

 

[Qdos]

I've examined my event logs. It does seem in my case it's as I suspected and the cause is Media Centre fetching updates, however what it doesn't tell me is whether there are service updates which aren't part of Windows Updates... or if the updates are purely forthcoming WMC tuner program information... :huh:

 

[seekermeister]

You could turn off automatic updates on Media Center.

 

[Qdos]

It's not a regular annoyance, only said about it for the OP, I shan't bother messing with my setup further - however it's definitely nothing in task scheduler that's the cause as far as my system is concerned

 

[MacGyvr]

If Windows Update causes an automatic reboot, it tells you so with a bubble in the notification area.

 

[Qdos]

How can you see a taskbar bubble if the computer is asleep when the event occurs? :huh:

 

[seekermeister]

How can you see a taskbar bubble if the computer is asleep when the event occurs? :huh:

How can it be seen if the user is asleep at the time?

 

[JohnnyScience]

Click on the start button and then type

task scheduler

in the dialog box at the botton (the one that says "search programs and files). Take a look at all the goodies in the active tasks section, paying particular attention to "triggers" and see if you can identify a likely culprit.

Also,

Ok I did that, I dont really know what to look for exactly, but under Trigger it does have:

Daily @ 12:05 AM every day enabled

So I assume this is one of the culprits, but probably not the only one.

How can I/is it safe for me to disable this trigger?

If anything like I have experienced, it is probably a BSOD and you don't have it set to not automatically restart, so when you see it later, the BSOD may not be apparent. Check your Event Viewer and minidump folder to see if you find anything that correlates to when it happened.

This sounds like it may also help, yet I dont know what BSOD is or minidump folder is etc... can you give me more detailed walk-thru instructions?

Thanks.

 

[MacGyvr]

How can you see a taskbar bubble if the computer is asleep when the event occurs? :huh:

The bubble displays when you wake the computer up.

 

[Qdos]

How can you see a taskbar bubble if the computer is asleep when the event occurs? :huh:

The bubble displays when you wake the computer up.

The event wakes the computer rather than the user, so you have to assume there's nobody at the helm and that the screen may well be switched off too - and once the event task is complete, there's no more bubble visible...

 

[seekermeister]

This sounds like it may also help, yet I dont know what BSOD is or minidump folder is etc... can you give me more detailed walk-thru instructions?

BSOD = Blue Screen Of Death. A term of "endearment" for a Blue screen that appears when some fatal error causes the computer to crash. By default, it only appears as long as it takes for the system to download data about the error into a minidump file, which can later be found in the Window>Minidump folder. If you attempt to read it by simply opening it, what you will see won't make any sense to you, but if you download and install a program BlueScreenView, it will interpret what the dumps say into a form much, much more understandable. Hopefully, this will give you a clue as to what happened, thus a hint as to how to prevent it from recurring.

 

[JohnnyScience]

This sounds like it may also help, yet I dont know what BSOD is or minidump folder is etc... can you give me more detailed walk-thru instructions?

BSOD = Blue Screen Of Death. A term of "endearment" for a Blue screen that appears when some fatal error causes the computer to crash. By default, it only appears as long as it takes for the system to download data about the error into a minidump file, which can later be found in the Window>Minidump folder. If you attempt to read it by simply opening it, what you will see won't make any sense to you, but if you download and install a program BlueScreenView, it will interpret what the dumps say into a form much, much more understandable. Hopefully, this will give you a clue as to what happened, thus a hint as to how to prevent it from recurring.

Ok I will try that out here when I get a little time.

Ok I did that, I dont really know what to look for exactly, but under Trigger it does have:

Daily @ 12:05 AM every day enabled

So I assume this is one of the culprits, but probably not the only one.

How can I/is it safe for me to disable this trigger?

 

[MyWin7]

You could use the pwr button and save electricity costs