daily_shutdown

daily shutdown on NT kiosks Jakob Hede Madsen wrote: Recently I devised a temporary system for some NT kiosks: A projector issued the baExitWindows( "shutdown" ), and this brought the computer all the way through the shutdown process, so that it powered down. Then the central power-supply was cut-off at night, and powered on again in the morning. We did some fiddling in the BIOS, most notably a setting which reboots after a power failure. So even though the computer was powered down, it still perceived the power-supply cut-off as a power failure, and thus rebooted in the morning, when the central power-supply was turned back on. --------<BIOS>-------- Press <delete> at boot to BIOS: INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS: PWRON After PWR-Fail: On --------</BIOS>-------- We also fiddled with the registry to allow unattended booting: --------<Registry>-------- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Set the DefaultDomainName, DefaultPassword (must be non-blank), and DefaultUserName. Set AutoAdminLogon to 1 (all are type REG_SZ). If you ever want to logon as a different user, hold down the shift key as you logoff. --------</Registry>-------- Later the system was changed (I was told) to a more convenient system where a program running on a server issued shut-down commands to all the 20+ computers. HTH, Jakob