Mother of fuck-- task scheduler broken by daylight savings

[Formless]

On my usual computer, I had task scheduler set to automatically turn off the computer at 2:00 AM. That was during daylight savings time. Now the computer shut off on me prematurely, and whats worse is every time I turn it on task scheduler turns it back off as soon as its booted. It takes about a minute for it to shut off, and during that time the damn thing is still starting up. Not being tech savvy, I don't know what the fuck is going on, let alone how to solve the problem. I can activate task manager before task scheduler activates, but I don't know what to shut off, if indeed this will do anything at all. The computer is running Vista, in case that helps.

To end on a cliche`: Help!

[Formless]

Never mind-- I got lucky and beat the shutoff program to the punch using task manager. Now to disable said task...

If a mod would please lock this thread; I think I have things under control now.

[Dominus Atheos]

Have you tried safe mode? That should disable the scheduler.

Why do you even have that setting anyway? You can just use the power options to make the computer sleep after 20-30 minutes and/or hibernate after 30-60 minutes of inactivity.

[Formless]

Have you tried safe mode? That should disable the scheduler.

Windows. Vista. Not an option, and besides, in order to do this I would have to turn it on. When this was still a problem, I couldn't do that.

Why do you even have that setting anyway? You can just use the power options to make the computer sleep after 20-30 minutes and/or hibernate after 30-60 minutes of inactivity.

I have it do that, but the automatic shutoff was essentially to keep me from pulling all nighters. So it was exactly for when its not inactive that I wanted it most.

[Havok]

Geez dude. Some self control might be something you want to look into.

[Formless]

I'm not particularity in the mood to justify myself with regards to this, so lets just leave it at "the problem has been solved." And in more ways than one.

[Uraniun235]

Have you tried safe mode? That should disable the scheduler.

Windows. Vista. Not an option, and besides, in order to do this I would have to turn it on. When this was still a problem, I couldn't do that.

How is Safe Mode not an option under Vista?

[Formless]

Have you tried safe mode? That should disable the scheduler.

Windows. Vista. Not an option, and besides, in order to do this I would have to turn it on. When this was still a problem, I couldn't do that.

How is Safe Mode not an option under Vista?

Well, if it is, pardon my ignorance, but I have no idea how to access it. As far as I know, you can't do safe mode in Vista. And besides, at the time my problem was basically like trying to open this box, only not by design. I fail to see how Safe Mode would have helped things.

[Executor32]

So wait, you can figure out how to use the task scheduler, but you can't figure out how to get into safe mode?



F8, dude. Press it after your BIOS screen goes away but before the Windows loading screen comes up. If you have a computer which shows a "this way morons ask us fewer stupid questions" logo screen (i.e Dell, HP, Compaq, etc.), then press it after that disappears.

Safe mode only loads the bare minimum things necessary for Windows to load. That means no drivers, no startup programs, no non-essential services, and no scheduled tasks. That is how it would help; it wouldn't execute the shutdown process by itself, thus allowing you to open the task scheduler and delete the task.

This isn't exactly rocket science, guy. It's been the exactly the same since Windows 95.