Your dedicated web hosting provider will assist you to shut down or reboot your Windows Dedicated server but the article given below will help you to complete this task on your own. Windows does put on these tasks for clients and these tasks are quite simple and can be done easily, but if you want to reboot the server you should have PsShutdown command-line utility.

Follow the steps given below to Reboot your Windows Dedicated server :

1) First, download psShutdown from their website.

2) Open your Windows command prompt via Start > Run > cmd

3) Then enter the following command,

c: \FolderName\psshutdown.exe –r –f –c –t 10 -accepteula

Note : Replace TIME with the exact time you want to schedule the reboot

4) Replace FolderName with wherever you stored PsShutdown.

The –codes are as follows:

-s shuts down your Windows server

-r reboots your Windows Dedicated Web Hosting.

-f forces all applications to exit even if they are running in the background, etc

-c allows your shutdown or reboot to be canceled

-t specifies the countdown in seconds until the machine reboots or shuts down

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You can easily manage your Windows Dedicated server by installing Crontab. You can setup schedule tasks on your Windows Dedicated server by installing Crontab. This will help you to manage your server with no hassle. You can schedule the tasks as per your requirements and you can even receive the automatic emails if you wish to receive emails about the tasks. These emails will inform you about the tasks which are completed completed so you can be rest assured with your server. You can manage your Windows Dedicated server with crontab by making some adjustments in the Plesk control panel.

Following are some of the easy steps which will help you to Install Crontab :-

1) Click on Crontab

Note : If you don’t want emails, don’t enter an address in the box.

2) Click on the Add New Task.

3) You’ll need to enter the specific paramaters to set the frequency of the task. Enter * to select all.

4) Then simply enter the path to the file that will execute the crontab: i.e. /usr/bin/python-s/var/mailman/cron/checkdbs and click OK

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