Scheduling pc to hibernate at specified time

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Is it possible to set a time for my pc to shutdown or hibernate. Rather than
just say hibernate after 2 hours, or whatever, can I specify a time? Just
wondered ...
 
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Jackie D said:
Hi

Is it possible to set a time for my pc to shutdown or hibernate.
Rather than just say hibernate after 2 hours, or whatever, can I
specify a time? Just wondered ...
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Not sure, but I'm curious as to why you'd want to do this. Napping or
sleeping after a period of idle time makes sense, but if someone's using the
computer, would you want it to hibernate in the middle of their work? And if
nobody is actively using the computer, what's wrong with using the idle
time settings?
 
Task Scheduler
and
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe Powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState

Will set hibernation.
 
You may try this shutdown.exe utility
http://www.budja.com/shutdown/

From that page:
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Shutdown.exe is a simple command line utility that can:
Log Off the current user
Shutdown (Turn Off) the computer
Restart the computer
Hibernate the computer (note that hibernation has to be enabled!)
Put the computer into Stand By (Sleep)
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From David Candy:
http://groups.google.co.in/[email protected]


From Torgeir Bakken:

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The following command line tools supports suspend (sleep) as
well as hibernate:

PsShutdown
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml

Wizmo
http://grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm

Budja shutdown:
http://www.budja.com/shutdown/

</Quote>

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Hi

Is it possible to set a time for my pc to shutdown or hibernate. Rather than
just say hibernate after 2 hours, or whatever, can I specify a time? Just
wondered ...
 
Hi

It's just me on my pc so no danger of hibernating in the middle of someone's
work. The reason I want to do this is that I need to record a live stream
late at night and turn the pc off immediately after. Saves me having to do it
manually when I could be getting my beauty sleep!
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Many thanks
JD
 
Bob 1 - That worked a treat. This may be fantasy but can I bring a pc out of
hibernation automatically as well?
 
To my knowledge: Only if the BIOS supports "Wake or Start at time".
Recent Dell's have this capability. Look in the BIOS.
 
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Jackie D said:
Hi

It's just me on my pc so no danger of hibernating in the middle of
someone's work. The reason I want to do this is that I need to record
a live stream late at night and turn the pc off immediately after.
Saves me having to do it manually when I could be getting my beauty
sleep!
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OK - was just curious. It seems you've gotten advice in other replies...good
luck!
 
You could try schedule some arbitrary task using Start | All Programs |
Accessories | System Tools | Schedule Tasks (any exe like notepad or
something will do) and on the schedule setting check the option "Wake the
computer to run this task"

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