What Are You Doing Right Now

Dashrender

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

RojoLoco

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

This is the type of scenario that I considered when setting the power options in Windows... I always set the power button action to shut down, so a short button push gives a graceful shutdown.

WrCombs

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

Yeah I understand that.
I'm Glad it's working now though .

dafyre

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

Yeah I understand that.
I'm Glad it's working now though .

I've seen this a few times and somebody commented that Explorer crashed. That is likely the issue... Next time, see what happens if you send CTRL+ALT+DEL? If that launches task manager, then you can file -> Run -> cmd and reboot from the command prompt.

WrCombs

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

Yeah I understand that.
I'm Glad it's working now though .

I've seen this a few times and somebody commented that Explorer crashed. That is likely the issue... Next time, see what happens if you send CTRL+ALT+DEL? If that launches task manager, then you can file -> Run -> cmd and reboot from the command prompt.

I tried that, It did not work on my end.
I dont think it was rebooting was the issue.

wrx7m

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

This is the type of scenario that I considered when setting the power options in Windows... I always set the power button action to shut down, so a short button push gives a graceful shutdown.

Same here. Works the majority of the time.

Dashrender

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I dont think it was rebooting was the issue.

What do you think the issue was?

WrCombs

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I dont think it was rebooting was the issue.

What do you think the issue was?

That it wasnt actually rebooting...?

Obsolesce

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

This is the type of scenario that I considered when setting the power options in Windows... I always set the power button action to shut down, so a short button push gives a graceful shutdown.

Same here. Works the majority of the time.

I only use laptops, so I have the button hibernate, lid close sleep (if on battery), lid close do nothing if plugged in, and I manually shutdown if I need to do that.

RojoLoco

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

This is the type of scenario that I considered when setting the power options in Windows... I always set the power button action to shut down, so a short button push gives a graceful shutdown.

Same here. Works the majority of the time.

I only use laptops, so I have the button hibernate, lid close sleep (if on battery), lid close do nothing if plugged in, and I manually shutdown if I need to do that.

I never let anything hibernate, it causes problems in my experience. In fact. one of the first commands I run on a fresh windows machine is

powercfg -hibernate off

dafyre

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

This is the type of scenario that I considered when setting the power options in Windows... I always set the power button action to shut down, so a short button push gives a graceful shutdown.

Same here. Works the majority of the time.

I only use laptops, so I have the button hibernate, lid close sleep (if on battery), lid close do nothing if plugged in, and I manually shutdown if I need to do that.

I never let anything hibernate, it causes problems in my experience. In fact. one of the first commands I run on a fresh windows machine is
powercfg -hibernate off

I only do that on desktops. I've ~~never~~ rarely seen it cause problems on laptops.

wrx7m

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

This is the type of scenario that I considered when setting the power options in Windows... I always set the power button action to shut down, so a short button push gives a graceful shutdown.

Same here. Works the majority of the time.

I only use laptops, so I have the button hibernate, lid close sleep (if on battery), lid close do nothing if plugged in, and I manually shutdown if I need to do that.

I never let anything hibernate, it causes problems in my experience. In fact. one of the first commands I run on a fresh windows machine is
powercfg -hibernate off

I find hibernate is less problem causing than sleep. Sleep causes all sorts of random network issues. Especially, when you wake it on another network.

Obsolesce

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

This is the type of scenario that I considered when setting the power options in Windows... I always set the power button action to shut down, so a short button push gives a graceful shutdown.

Same here. Works the majority of the time.

I only use laptops, so I have the button hibernate, lid close sleep (if on battery), lid close do nothing if plugged in, and I manually shutdown if I need to do that.

I never let anything hibernate, it causes problems in my experience. In fact. one of the first commands I run on a fresh windows machine is
powercfg -hibernate off

It's never been an issue for me. I use it often.

wrx7m

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

This is the type of scenario that I considered when setting the power options in Windows... I always set the power button action to shut down, so a short button push gives a graceful shutdown.

Same here. Works the majority of the time.

I only use laptops, so I have the button hibernate, lid close sleep (if on battery), lid close do nothing if plugged in, and I manually shutdown if I need to do that.

I never let anything hibernate, it causes problems in my experience. In fact. one of the first commands I run on a fresh windows machine is
powercfg -hibernate off
It's never been an issue for me. I use it often.

I use hibernate for two desktops at home. I hibernate them all the time and wake them remotely (LAN or WAN), then hibernate them again when done.

Dashrender

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

This is the type of scenario that I considered when setting the power options in Windows... I always set the power button action to shut down, so a short button push gives a graceful shutdown.

Same here. Works the majority of the time.

I only use laptops, so I have the button hibernate, lid close sleep (if on battery), lid close do nothing if plugged in, and I manually shutdown if I need to do that.

I never let anything hibernate, it causes problems in my experience. In fact. one of the first commands I run on a fresh windows machine is
powercfg -hibernate off
I only do that on desktops. I've ~~never~~ rarely seen it cause problems on laptops.

You sir are a lucky man then!

Dashrender

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I got it.

I ran a remote command to restart the PC and when it finally took the command and came back up the GUI was there....

Im confused as all hell.

yeah - I'm guessing it wasn't ever actually rebooted.

that's what Im guessing too because once it rebooted for me it came up. ..

If the screen was only black - how would the user know if it was rebooted or not - especially if they don't see the BIOS screen pop.

I guess I would have had them pull the power plug, if that didn't work, then I'd have pull ever cord, becuase it's likely they didn't actually pull the power cable.

This is the type of scenario that I considered when setting the power options in Windows... I always set the power button action to shut down, so a short button push gives a graceful shutdown.

Same here. Works the majority of the time.

I only use laptops, so I have the button hibernate, lid close sleep (if on battery), lid close do nothing if plugged in, and I manually shutdown if I need to do that.

I never let anything hibernate, it causes problems in my experience. In fact. one of the first commands I run on a fresh windows machine is
powercfg -hibernate off
I find hibernate is less problem causing than sleep. Sleep causes all sorts of random network issues. Especially, when you wake it on another network.

or same network - I had an issue where Outlook would not reconnect for some users, but not others. Just flat refused until you closed Outlook and reopened it.

scottalanmiller

Getting the kids ready for a Valentine's Day party.

scottalanmiller

Then I am heading up to Plano to work.

scotth

My youngest is 28 today. Happy ~~Valent~~ Birthday

scottalanmiller

@scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

My youngest is 28 today. Happy ~~Valent~~ Birthday

My eldest niece was born today, too.