Workstation uptime, maintenance, and reboot service

1. A method, comprising:

activating operation of a maintenance timer utility to track an amount of time that a computer system has been operating since startup;

determining whether there are any updates to an executable programming code that require installation;

in response to the determining, selecting an iterative mode for a maintenance service utility, which enables the maintenance service utility to awake periodically following a predefined period of time to identify a maintenance procedure to launch;

launching the maintenance procedure, via a thread, after the predefined period of time when there are updates to the executable programming code by launching an update executable code comprising the updates to be installed to the executable programming code; and

launching another iteration of the maintenance service utility, via the same thread, which invokes a flag value being set to keep the thread from being launched again, to update the executable programming code that is set to launch upon expiration of a different predefined period of time which is shorter than the predefined period of time associated with the maintenance service utility.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuring of the maintenance service utility to launch a maintenance procedure comprises selecting sleep mode for the maintenance service utility.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the sleep mode is selected from a list comprising hourly, a specified wait, a day of week, a date time, and daily.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

selecting a wait time for the maintenance service utility to remain dormant.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuring of the maintenance service utility is performed at least one of locally on the computer system and remotely from another computer system.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the maintenance timer utility reboots the computer system when the amount of time the computer system has been operating since startup exceeds a predetermined threshold limit.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

causing the maintenance service utility to go to sleep for the predetermined period of time; and

causing the maintenance service utility to wake up after a predetermined period of time has elapsed.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the activating of the operation of the maintenance timer utility occurs during startup of the computer system.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the launching the maintenance procedure further comprises:

creating a set of values including a sleep mode value, a unique executable code name, and a path to the executable code to launch.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the created set of values further comprises:

at least one parameter to pass to the executable code to launch.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable code stored therein, the computer readable code, when executed by at least one processor, configured to cause the at least one processor to perform:

activating operation of a maintenance timer utility to track an amount of time that a computer system has been operating since startup;

determining whether there are any updates to an executable programming code that require installation;

in response to the determining, selecting an iterative mode for a maintenance service utility, which enables the maintenance service utility to awake periodically following a predefined period of time to identify a maintenance procedure to launch;

launching the maintenance procedure, via a thread, after the predefined period of time when there are updates to the executable programming code by launching an update executable code comprising the updates to be installed to the executable programming code; and

launching another iteration of the maintenance service utility, via the same thread, which invokes a flag value being set to keep the thread from being launched again, to update the executable programming code that is set to launch upon expiration of a different predefined period of time which is shorter than the predefined period of time associated with the maintenance service utility.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the updated executable code is further configured to cause the at least one processor to configure the maintenance service utility to launch a maintenance procedure that enables selecting a sleep mode for the maintenance service utility.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 12 , wherein the sleep mode is selected from a list comprising hourly, a specified wait, a day of week, a date time, and daily.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the update executable code is further configured to cause the at least one processor to perform:

selecting of a wait time for the maintenance service utility to remain dormant.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the maintenance service utility is executed at least one of locally on the computer system and remotely from another computer system.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the maintenance timer utility reboots the computer system when the amount of time the computer system has been operating since startup exceeds a predetermined threshold limit.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the computer program code is further configured to cause the at least one processor to perform:

causing the maintenance service utility to go to sleep for the predetermined period of time; and

causing the maintenance service utility to wake up after a predetermined period of time has elapsed.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the activating of the operation of the maintenance timer utility occurs during startup of the computer system.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 11 , wherein, when wherein the computer program code is to cause the at least one processor to perform launching the maintenance procedure, the computer program code is further configured to cause the at least one processor to perform:

creating a set of values including a sleep mode value, a unique executable code name, and a path to the executable code to launch.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the created set of values further comprises:

at least one parameter to pass to the executable code to launch.