Windows XP SP2, I am using the shutdown.exe program provided by Microsoft,
to shutdown and restart a PC in the morning, and have set up a shortcut to
it so I can just click it when I am ending my remote desktop connection. PC
doesn't always let me back in on remote desktop if I don't reboot it.

I use the command

shutdown -r -f

-r is shutdown and restart, -f is force running apps to close

now I am getting an error

The device is not ready

It also doesn't seem to want to run at scheduled time either.


Fred