Power utility?

[Mark G.]

So I have been looking to see how to auto boot windows at specific times.
Nothing XP Pro can do by itself from what I see so I was turning to some
utilities out there. While quickly browsing I thought maybe some of you have
run across some good utilities for this very thing? Am trying to make my
computers turn off at certain days/time and then turn them on at certain
days/times. I have never really cared for the hibernate function built into
XP Pro plus I want to conserve some power by turning off machines when I
know I want be using them for a period of time or need access to them even
if briefly. A lot of utilities I briefly glanced at don't see to have a
function to boot or turn on a machine. One concern as well is if I set it to
auto login, what is the best route for this as I typically like the security
of having it logout automatically after extended periods of time. So I am
hoping that some of you would have some good suggestions on such a utility
for XP Pro that may be free or if need be, low cost? Would be much
appreciated!

 

[Sampathn]

Hi,

Up to my knowledge there is no such utilities running on the XP. But you can
use BIOS to set specific time. But only some of the BIOS versions give this
feature.

thx

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

So I have been looking to see how to auto boot windows at specific times.
Nothing XP Pro can do by itself from what I see so I was turning to some
utilities out there.

Windows is not running anymore after shutdown! Therefore, neither Windows
nor Windows based utilities can auto boot your system at specific times.

 

[Bob I]

Look in your BIOS for the setting to boot at the desired time.