How schedule a PC to power on?

[jtsnow]

How do you schedule XP to turn on the PC at a certain time of day?
Ive looked all over, in Power Options and in Help and I have done it before
but cant find how to do it now. I need to do this for the backup server is
on which is really someones PC on the home LAN.

thank you

 

[BILLY]

How do you schedule XP to turn on the PC at a certain time of day?
Ive looked all over, in Power Options and in Help and I have done it before
but cant find how to do it now. I need to do this for the backup server is
on which is really someones PC on the home LAN.

I don't know your exact situation but if you look up "scheduled tasks"
u can write a script (fill out a form) to activate the computer at a
certain time you specify if you use the sleep mode - not hibernate but
sleep or suspend mode. I think of it as a clock-radio alarm clock.
I told the computer to turn on at 530am and run a certain program for
4.5 hours to record a radio program that I usually don't get to hear.
Depending on how you have the computer set up, you can have a classic
appearance and the scheduled tasks appears as an item on c:

Billy, N5WE
Mississippi

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

How do you schedule XP to turn on the PC at a certain time of day?
Ive looked all over, in Power Options and in Help and I have done it
before but cant find how to do it now. I need to do this for the
backup server is on which is really someones PC on the home LAN.

thank you

Some computers can do this with a BIOS setting. Windows XP cannot, since a
program can't do anything when it is not running.

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[Robert Jacobs]

You would have to have some hardware that is in controll of turning on your
computers power supply. This item allows you to make a phonecall to turn an
unattended PC on. http://www.busam.com/skyland/TurnOn.html

 

[Vanguard]

How do you schedule XP to turn on the PC at a certain time of day?
Ive looked all over, in Power Options and in Help and I have done it
before but cant find how to do it now. I need to do this for the
backup server is on which is really someones PC on the home LAN.

thank you

Go into your BIOS and look for an RTC Alarm setting. However, that
won't get you past the BIOS password prompt, if enabled for security, or
the Windows login prompt, unless you have it configured to login
automatically (which obviously obviates any security on that host
depending on the group to which the auto-logon account belongs).

 

[jtsnow]

yea! thanks...it must be the bio think. I did it and forgot how

thanks!