Quote Originally Posted by morganlefay View Post
Lets see...for example today I had a boss type who is notorious for leaving applications open 24/7 and does not like to have to "re boot" the machine. Every so often...about once a month he calls me and complains that "things are acting funny" and dont work. My standard response is " have you restarted your machine lately?" and his response is "of course".

I then usually venture over to his office and see if I can help.

I open task manager and see the the machine has been running for about 531 hours...which in my estimation is approx 22.125 days. and I tell him that a restart should fix his issues...because the machine has been running 24/7 with several applications open for approx oh 3 weeks...and and some applications will continue to use up all the resources until they are restarted....sometimes the machine will require a restart also

and he tells me

"the computer is lying"

I didnt even know how to respond to that. I nodded my head and suggested he restart his machine to see if it would resolve the issue.

A day in the life of morganlefay



MLF
Ah My Dear, Lovely B**ChSysAdmin

You seem to have lost focus. When this happens to a BastardSysAdmin or a B**ThSysAdmin I always suggest returning to basics:

Grab the shutdown.exe program out of the w2k (or above) resource kit. Copy it into the %systemroot%/system32 folder. In the same folder create a batch file named reboot.bat with the following

shutdown /L /R /Y /C

Now set an AT command to run the thing every day at midnight.

Now create a shortcut on your desktop pointing to \\stupidusercomputer\...\reboot.bat.

Name the shortcut Dumbass.

Next time the user calls, Don't just say it, double click it!

As always, and with Love...

Dino The Original Bastard!