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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender @WrCombs
      last edited by

      @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.

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      • RojoLocoR
        RojoLoco @Dashrender
        last edited by

        @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.

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        • WrCombsW
          WrCombs @Dashrender
          last edited by

          @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 .

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre @WrCombs
            last edited by

            @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.

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            • WrCombsW
              WrCombs @dafyre
              last edited by

              @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.

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              • wrx7mW
                wrx7m @RojoLoco
                last edited by

                @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.

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @WrCombs
                  last edited by

                  @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?

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                  • WrCombsW
                    WrCombs @Dashrender
                    last edited by

                    @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...?

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                    • ObsolesceO
                      Obsolesce @wrx7m
                      last edited by

                      @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.

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                      • RojoLocoR
                        RojoLoco @Obsolesce
                        last edited by

                        @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
                        
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                        • dafyreD
                          dafyre @RojoLoco
                          last edited by

                          @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.

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                          • wrx7mW
                            wrx7m @RojoLoco
                            last edited by

                            @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.

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                            • ObsolesceO
                              Obsolesce @RojoLoco
                              last edited by

                              @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.

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                              • wrx7mW
                                wrx7m @Obsolesce
                                last edited by

                                @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.

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender @dafyre
                                  last edited by

                                  @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!

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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @wrx7m
                                    last edited by

                                    @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.

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

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                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        Then I am heading up to Plano to work.

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                                          scotth
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                                          My youngest is 28 today. Happy Valent Birthday

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @scotth
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                                            @scotth said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

                                            My youngest is 28 today. Happy Valent Birthday

                                            My eldest niece was born today, too.

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