Shutdown Script to put PC into Standby mode?

[Rich Roller]

Anybody know if a Shutdown Script (as defined in Group Policy) could be
written so as to put a PC into Standby Mode INSTEAD of actually doing a true
power-off shutdown?

If this can be done, then I might be able to automatically wake the PC up to
run a process in the middle of the night, triggered by a scheduled task with
the setting "wake the computer to run..."

TIA,

Rich

 

[Richard Urban]

Is your computer not capable of going into standby via
Start/Shutdown/Standby? If it is, any scheduled task can wake the computer
to perform its operation. What do you expect to gain by using a script?

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Rich Roller]

Of course Windows always gives the user the option of choosing Restart,
Shutdown or Standby, but that requires the correct manual choice (Standby).

What I neglected to say is that my customer has users who are well trained
and ingrained to always choose Shutdown at the end of the day. They don't
want to change. What the IT manager wants is for the PC to go into Standby,
even if the user chooses Shutdown.

Thus my idea/question of using a Shutdown Script to actually prevent a true
power-off shutdown, but rather to do a Standby. If this were possible then
the IT manager could make sure that PC's wake up in the middle of the night
to run a certain scanning process he wants them to run.

Make sense?

In thinking more about this, I think it hinges on whether you can issue a
standby command from the command-line or a utility. It doesn't appear that
XP's shutdown command has a switch for standby mode, and I don't see any
other MS command for standby. Maybe I should make a new post to see if
anyone knows of such a thing?

I think there may be some 3rd-party utilities (e.g. PowerOff) that could be
run from command-line to do standby but I'd prefer to use all-MS if
possible.

-Rich

 

[Stan Brown]

What I neglected to say is that my customer has users who are well trained
and ingrained to always choose Shutdown at the end of the day. They don't
want to change. What the IT manager wants is for the PC to go into Standby,
even if the user chooses Shutdown.

I'll bite: WHY?