auto boot

[lovewindoze]

Just wondering if there is a way to have my computer automatically bootup at a certain time.

Also, what about shutting down? I tried scheduling a task that called SHUTDOWN.EXE but that didn't work.

 

[shmoes]

I think the only way to do that is using the WOL on your network card, but then you need to send that from somewhere .. so i doubt it..



~Shmoes

 

[bcastner]

http://www.xvsxp.com/power/

 

[lovewindoze]

Interesting link. But I don't see where it talks about autobooting XP

 

[Frank4d]

If you mean autoboot as in the PC is powered off and turns itself on at a certain time... no.

 

[shmoes]

I think what it says there is .. it can't be done without WOL (Wake on LAN) for start up..

where as shutdown you should still be able to do..

~Shmoes

 

[bcastner]

Shmoes above picks up the central issue: this is a BIOS issue, and your BIOS either offers an event-based trigger, or it does not.

If not, there is nothing you can do.
To be honest, I leave my computers on 24/7, all seven of them.

 

[linney]

Also, what about shutting down? I tried scheduling a task that called SHUTDOWN.EXE but that didn't work."

Set up XP to turn off
thread779-606975

Turn on computer automatically
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[bcastner]

Shutdown is relatively easy as an issue. (I would have written "chump change" but I suspect that does not work as an expression Down Under in OZ.)

 

[micker377]

In my BIOS, there is a setting: On power restore (and you set as)
1. Off.
2. On.
3. Previous state.

If you can do this (set for "on"), and set a regular (three prong) timer to turn off main computer power, say 12:00 and on at 12:05, this would re-cycle the power and boot the computer up at 12:05.

That takes care of "on". Auto "off" can be set with a line in Scheduled Tasks.

 

[micker377]

See thread 974646 for shutdown methods.

 

[linney]

Things are "crook" when you need to have a "gander" at Google to see if you are being "dumped on".

"chump change" seems to have first appeared in the African-American community in the late 1960s with the meaning of "small change, a negligible amount of money." The sense of the term is "an amount of money only a chump would value; a trivial amount," as opposed to larger amounts of "real money."

 

[micker377]

The sense of the term is "an amount of money only a chump would value; a trivial amount," as opposed to larger amounts of "real money."

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