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| Thread ID: 96236 | 2009-01-03 19:33:00 | timed sleep/wake switching | Blue Druid (4480) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 734763 | 2009-01-03 19:33:00 | I am hoping to find an application that will hibernate/wake my PC at specified times which vary throughout the week. XPSP3, ASUS M2A-VM HDM Mobo, AMD690G chipset (in case it's relevant) |
Blue Druid (4480) | ||
| 734764 | 2009-01-04 08:46:00 | Hibernate you can schedule easily in windows, using a batch file. For waking up-you can try wake up on LAN |
Blam (54) | ||
| 734765 | 2009-01-04 09:29:00 | Thank you for the suggestion, Blam6. Yes, I had thought of a batch file but the wake up is the harder bit, not having a LAN. I have heard that there is an application available for download that will do what I want but for the life of me, I can't find it. The way it was described to me was that it had provision for manual override (e.g. half-finished download at sleep time) as well as the facility to vary the set times according to the day of the week or with multiple cycles within a day to coincide with programmed tasks. Sadly, my informant is inaccessible (on holiday in outback Aussie) but I had hoped to prove my independence by getting it set up all by myself :o |
Blue Druid (4480) | ||
| 734766 | 2009-01-04 09:46:00 | You could try using Scheduled Tasks to wake up your computer. Create a task that opens say... winzip. Under the Advanced Settings in Power Management there is the option of Waking the computer to run the scheduled task. After it has started, you can change the time setting so it will start over again. I haven't tried it, so do not know if it works. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 734767 | 2009-01-04 18:25:00 | For some reason, that option is not available under Power Management / Advanced or as far as I can find, anywhere else on my contraption. Perhaps I will wait until the fruit of my loins returns from communing with snakes, spiders and kangaroos and interrogate him more closely as to how he solved the problem. If it's novel and it works, I'll let you know because I can't believe that I'm the only one for whom such a tool would be useful. |
Blue Druid (4480) | ||
| 734768 | 2009-01-04 18:43:00 | Did a google seach for "wakeup computer" and found these www.vbforums.com 3d2f.com www.brothersoft.com Dont know if they are any good. More there under the above search. |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 734769 | 2009-01-04 19:07:00 | Thank you for those, Colpol. Clearly I was using the wrong parameters in my Google search. I will browse those again because there certainly looks to be something there that will do the job. | Blue Druid (4480) | ||
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