Let's say I have a huge project with a rendering time of 1000 hours or more. I don't want my PC to work non-stop for that long. I want to say something like, 'Please stop rendering now and continue where you have left off later when I tell you to.'
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I would like to pause a render that I have started, with the intention of resuming it at a later time (but during the same Blender session).  How can I do this?
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A little background: We have several Windows servers (2003, 2008) for our department. We're a division of IT so we manage our own servers. Of the four of us here I'm the only one with a slight amount of IT knowledge. (Note the "slight amount".) My boss says the servers need to be restarted at least weekly. I disagree. Our IT Department says that because she restarts them constantly that's the reason why our hard drives fail and power supplies go out on them. (That's happened to a few of our servers a couple times over the last four years, and very recently.)  So the question is: How often does everyone restart their Windows servers? Is there an industry standard or recommendation? Is our IT department correct in saying that because we re-start that's why we're having hardware issues? (I need a reason if I'm going to change her mind!)
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I'm doing a project in cycles and I want to render it but its too slow on my CPU. So I want to render the scene in luxrender but without starting the project all over again.
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I have had this happen to me twice now.  I'll be in the middle of working on something that has resulted in me not rebooting my machine for several days.  If Windows 7 is waiting to install updates it'll eventually get to a point where it forces a restart to install the updates.  The problem is that it doesn't notify me or tell me that its going to do this and I've lost work as a result and most recently had a VM become corrupt and unusable.  Is there a way to at least get it to prompt me before doing this?  It used to...
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How can I automatically shutdown the system after a certain customizable time?
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Some tasks are important but can be pushed off until the next sprint (period in which we add developments to software).  But some tasks are essential and aboslutely must be completed in the current sprint.  Is there a word or expression for these kinds of tasks (can be from other contexts as well)?  Example sentence:     Please classify these tasks as ____________ that must be completed by November.   EDIT: I know that in other languages the word "iron" is used to express the strict nature of the task. But I'm not familiar with a similar English expression.
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I want to express simply that some time had elapsed. Is the following correct?     It was passed 10 minutes.   Are there any alternatives?
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Is there a Windows standard way to do things such as "start fan", "decrease speed" or the like, from C/C++?  I have a suspicion it might be ACPI, but I am a frail mortal and cannot read that kind of documentation.  Edit: e.g. Windows 7 lets you select in your power plan options such as "passive cooling" (only when things get hot?) vs. "active cooling" (keep the CPU proactively cool?). It seems the OS does have a way to control the fan generically.
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I don't want task scheduler or whatever to wake the computer, but when I open the laptop back up and the machine wakes I'd like that to be the trigger that task scheduler or something uses to run an app.
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Hi I should make a video for a project of a hydroponic containers but the rendering time is over 30 hours ... how can I reduce it while maintaining good graphics ? Thanks !
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I want know how I can run a command for a specified time say, one minute and if it doesn't complete execution then I should be able to stop it.
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I keep getting this annoying low memory warning/prompt to close games I play. It happens very often and I still have ~6 gigs of ram free. I disabled virtual memory because it was putting stuff on the pagefile when I had 10 gigs free ram so that spiked my disk usage.  Is there any way to disable this warning? I have 16GB ram so it shouldn't be an issue. I would prefer to keep pagefiles off because my HD is very loud so it's nice to keep it spun down as much as possible.  I don't want to disable it completely. Ideally, I would like it to go off when I have ~2GB left rather than 6, but if this isn't viable, I may just disable it completely.
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I find that at the end of a long day, I sometimes have a large number of programs running. All which I will need to use tomorrow. Normally, this isn't an issue, I can simply lock the machine and come back tomorrow. My problem arrises when windows update launches in the middle of the night and force restarts my computer. That in turns closes all my open software. I of course save everything regularly so I don't loose anything, but I waste time reopening all of those resources whenever there is a restart.   [EDIT]  I should clarify that I still want to be able to restart my computer when an update comes down. Preventing the restart only delays the problem until later. I should have been more specific in that I want to be able to recover my working environment after a restart for any reason. Things like scheduled maintence, power loss, updates, and software installs.  [EDIT]  I can't simply have them setup to launch at startup becasuse those files change from week to week. So I need something that monitors what I have open, and gives me the option to "recover" those software sessions when I log back in.  Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do? I'd even be willing to purchase software to do this for me if that is the only option.  Thanks
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I am using an old laptop and doing heavy processing that needs high CPU usage for a long time (~30mins - 2hours). When the process puts heavy load on CPU for a long time, CPU overheats and computer shuts down. I don't want to use a cooler/stand because I am carrying this laptop around and working outside home.  Is there a way/application that I can limit CPU usage of a process in Windows?  Note: Setting the priority of the process from task manager does not work.  Note 2: Fans are clean.
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Is there a technique in Windows that can selectively limit bandwidth of a running process?
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Assuming you've just entered the command shutdown -h now (or something equivalent), is there realistically anything you can do (if you're quick enough) to prevent the machine shutting down?
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The place I work at has commands that take a long time to execute.   Is there a command/utility that I can use to notify me when the command execution is over? It could be a popup window or maybe a little sound.