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Shane

Does anyone know of a freeware program that will let me specify a
specific time for my computer to turn on. If I could set different
times for different days of the week that would but great but if I have
to set a default time for all days that will be good to. Thanks in
advance for your help.
 
Does anyone know of a freeware program that will let me specify a
specific time for my computer to turn on.
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I'm not sure how that would be possible since the computer would need to
be on in order for the software to run . . . unless you could sneak
something into the bios somewhere.
 
Allen said:
I'm not sure how that would be possible since the computer would need
to be on in order for the software to run . . . unless you could sneak
something into the bios somewhere.
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I know what you mean but I thought I would post anyway and see what
people had to suggest.
 
Shane said:
Does anyone know of a freeware program that will let me specify a specific
time for my computer to turn on. If I could set different times for
different days of the week that would but great but if I have to set a
default time for all days that will be good to. Thanks in advance for
your help.
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I guess you could use one of those timers that plug into the wall socket and
then plug the computer into the timer and set it to the time you want. Don't
know if that would work or not. Never tried it.
 
I don't have any specific recommendations offhand, but you might want
to search a.c.freeware via groups.google.com for auto-start apps or
alarm type programs that can run an app you specify at a certain time.
Keywords would be something like: auto-start, auto-shutdown, etc. I
seem to recall some postings along these lines in the past several
weeks.
 
OK, I was just curious about such a program, following my prev post
which probably ws less than useful. Here's a few progs I just found,
ONLY using the keyword "shut-down" and/or with "automatic" "timer"
etc.I haven't tried any of them.

Free Shutdown Master
http://software323.com/en/products.php
"Shutdown Master is a powerful network enabled shutdown utility, that
allows you to shutdown, log off, reboot, turn off, hibernate, enter in
standby mode, shut down, reboot, and send messages to computers in your
network, both automatically or manually with one mouse click.
"You can shutdown your computer at user defined times every day, by
date or when cannot ping a specified IP address. For example, you can
set it to shut down your machine at different times based on the day of
the week. The program uses 24 hour format.
"Before shutdown you can specify to delete Internet Explorer cache
files, cookies, history, empty the recycle bin, delete records of
recently accessed files, disconnect from Internet, and run any
application. Also provides access to shutdown, restart, standby,
hibernate, and log off commands from the system tray and can save a
list of machines to be reloaded later, at system startup.
Shutdown Master v1.0 includes:
IP scanner utility, for fast IP detection.
Shutdown server, for remote shutdown in any Windows version.
Remote execution: if you turn on this option, you can run applications
from your remote machine."
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ShutDown
http://www.tdnsoftware.com/v1.3/shdsetup13.exe
[website says temp down due to billing problerm]
You may be able to download from here:
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_94_8024.html

"We have developed ShutDown software because we had had enough of
wasting our time. Every time we wanted to switch the computer off, we
had to make loads of mouse movements and clicks. We will not list other
problems - believe, that in order to reboot the computer, enable
screensaver or sleeping mode, you need to make many actions. ShutDown
lets you automate these actions. All you need is ONE mouse click and
everything you want will be done."
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MR Tech Systray [a bunch of tools incl auto-shutdown]
http://www.mrtech.com/mrsystray/

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TOff
http://www.dennisbabkin.com/php/download.php?what=TOff
"This utility will be very handy for people who would like to leave
their computer unattended for some time before automatically turning it
off. TOff can turn off your computer (or hibernate, when possible) at a
certain day and time, with the seconds discrepancy. I use it every time
when I leave my computer at the office to download some stuff from the
Internet and then to turn it off at night so that it looked like
nothing was happening in the morning."
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Absolute Control
http://kamatoz.com/
"AbsoluteControl(tm) offers a wide range of OS control tools available
with a single click. It can set your screen resolution with highest
possible refresh rate, open\close your CD drives, reboot, shutdown,
poweroff, hibernate and send to standby mode your system. Web-search is
also available with one click!"
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Quick ShutDown
http://www.winutility.com/qsd/
[Don't know if this one has a timer-like function]

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Alarm Me
http://www.qytec.0nyx.com/alarmme.html
"No words for this excellent alarm tool. "Alarm me" can be your
favorite time organizer as it is powerful, regarding its capabilities,
and its user interface is great. Includes general alarms, repeating
alarms, perfect Birthday reminder, Address Book facillity, build in
Diary and more. It contains Timer and Countdown utility. Also it
supports the "shut down feature" which means that you can schedule when
to shut down (restart or log off) your system. Its Simplicity to use
and its several capabilities make "Alarm Me" to be unique on its kind.
"
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ZenKey
http://www.camiweb.com/zenkey/index.htm

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Slawdog Smart Shutdown
http://slawdog.com/index.asp
"It allows you to shut down, log off, reboot, lock, turn off,
hibernate, disconnect from the Internet or network, enter standby mode
in Windows, and shut down and reboot computers in your network--all
both manually and automatically. Its built-in Smart Shutdown technology
can shut down your computer if you are inactive for a specified period
of time. Plus, with its Easy Shutdown technology, you can shut down
your computer with just a single click."
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Sveglia
http://salvador.p2pforum.it/
[pretty basic, it looks like]
"Sveglia is a simple alarm clock. With Sveglia it is possible to
activate an alarm, run a program, shutdown or restart the PC at certain
time. Shutdown PC and restart PC can´t be activated with Active Alarm
and Active Software. Before using Sveglia it is better to configure the
software to use through the relative button. Sveglia has an integrated
sound file to use as an alarm, but it is always possible to change it
through the relative button. "
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Shutdown Monster
http://www.mosolyorszag.hu/david/
"Shutdown Monster is a shutdown timer. That means, that you can make
your computer to shut down at a specified time. You can set a
countdown, type in an exact date and time, or even specify a file to
check periodically."
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PrestoNotes [a stickies sort of program that can, among other things,
shut-down -- shut-down from their website only works on XP or 2000
http://members.chello.be/cr41007/DescriptionUK.htm
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RemShutDown
http://www.nsauditor.com/freeware/index.html
[not for Win9x]
"RemShutdown allows remotely shutdown or restart network computers. You
can specify a delay during which a message you specify can be displayed
and applications running on the remote computer at the time of shutdown
can be allowed to close. The tool is designed with a user-friendly
interface and is easy to use. "
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Lomsel Shutdown
http://www.lomsel.net/
"Lomsel Shutdown is a small system utility that can automatically
perform various frequently used operations like shutdown or restart
your computer, disconnect your current dialup connection, hibernate
workstation, etc. It also provides fast access to these operations
through system tray icon with popup menu. The utility has frendly and a
nice looked interface, that allows you to initiate operations mentioned
above from your computer. Lomsel Shutdown has a wizard which helps you
automate a selected action. "
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Auto Shutdown
http://www.konradp.com/products/auto_shutdown/
"This program will automatically shutdown the system after a specified
amount of time. "
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System Up Time Monitor
http://www.zamaan.net.tf/
"Dynamically displays System Started / elapsed Time, lets you schedule
tasks such as Shutdown, Reboot, Alert, Logoff, Run Program, Visit
Website, etc. Also displays Available Physical Memory, CPU Usage and
Current Time. All on a Transparent(optional) screen. "
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WINdie
http://my.dot.tk/cgi-bin/bn300.taloha/entry
or download from here:
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_102_10038.html
"Is your PC shutting down to slowly? WINdie almost instantly shuts down
your PC at a given time for all versions of Windows. Simple, cool and
efficient."
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ShutDownOnTime
http://shutdownontime.ouvaton.org/
"ShutDownOnTime is a small program that allows to turn off, hibernate,
standby, logoff and reboot your local computer at user defined times
every day. ShutDownOnTime is intended to help save energy resources.
ShutDownOnTime is perfect for offices were computers stay on at night
and over the weekend because no one cared to switch them off."
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Tray Commander Lite
[a bunch of tools, incl shut-down]
http://www.ardamax.com/
"Tray Commander is a multifunctional utility that was developed to let
you quickly run your frequently used commands directly from the system
tray. Tray Commander adds a single icon to the tray which, when
clicked, displays a menu to which you can add commands. It can
open\close your CD drives, reboot, shutdown your system, run your
favorite applications, launch any screensavers and many others. "
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Phatsoft TMR
http://www.phatsoft.net/
"Phatsoft TMR is a lightweight and easy to use utility to schedule
reminder messages or actions (like shutting down or restarting your
computer, opening a file, playing audio, starting an application,
opening a web page, and more) at a given date and time. Unlike other
applications TMR is built upon the Windows Task Scheduler so it wont
waste your system resources by running in the background. Tasks can be
scheduled easily with few clicks, or from the command line."
 
Shane said:
Does anyone know of a freeware program that will let me specify a specific
time for my computer to turn on. If I could set different times for
different days of the week that would but great but if I have to set a
default time for all days that will be good to. Thanks in advance for
your help.
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I have not seen software to do this but have run into motherboards that
supported a wake-up or start-up time in a BIOS setting. Some of them hide
it in the "what to do after a power failure" section of the bios settings.
 
I know what you mean but I thought I would post anyway and see what
people had to suggest.
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What you need is a clock timer which plugs into the wall socket!
 
hummingbird said:
What you need is a clock timer which plugs into the wall socket!
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I was thinking along the same lines but this would not press the start
switch on the computer!

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Adam was Eve's mother.
 
I was thinking along the same lines but this would not press the start
switch on the computer!
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hhmmm. I just spotted that. PCs are always 'off' w/o power and the
on/off switch becomes active but in 'off' mode when power is fed to
it. A tricky problem for the OP methinks ... ;-)
 
hummingbird said:
hhmmm. I just spotted that. PCs are always 'off' w/o power and the
on/off switch becomes active but in 'off' mode when power is fed to
it. A tricky problem for the OP methinks ... ;-)
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I think the answer (if there is one!) lies in hibernating the machine but
leaving the power on. This would eliminate the need to boot up the computer.
Some sort of program that would hibernate the computer for a given length of
time is needed. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Alternatively, if the machine was hibernated and the power switched off, a
clock timer might restart the machine if the power switch was depressed
after the power had been switched off. Whether this would have any ill
effects I do not know. For this to work the power switch would have to be
set to hibernate the machine. In XP this is done with Start>Control
Panel>Performance and Maintenance>Power Options>Advanced and set the power
button to Hibernate. Some computers do not have a Hibernate function.

This is an unusual but interesting problem.

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Frank Bohan
¶ Three out of four people make up 75% of the population.
 
My apologies for my previous reply. I didn't read the original query
fully enough before responding. That'll teach me. Anyway, now you've
got a list of freeware shutdown progs....
 
[snip]
hhmmm. I just spotted that. PCs are always 'off' w/o power and the
on/off switch becomes active but in 'off' mode when power is fed to
it. A tricky problem for the OP methinks ... ;-)
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I think the answer (if there is one!) lies in hibernating the machine but
leaving the power on. This would eliminate the need to boot up the computer.
Some sort of program that would hibernate the computer for a given length of
time is needed. Does anyone know if this is possible?
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I was thinking of hibernate later ... but I cannot understand why the
OP might want to turn the computer back on unattended. I'm not sure if
hibernating and then turning off the power would do the trick; I think
it would create the same problem we discussed before - ie the machine
would start with the on/off switch in off mode, requiring manual
intervention. The on/off switch is controlled by the mobo and PSU.
Alternatively, if the machine was hibernated and the power switched off, a
clock timer might restart the machine if the power switch was depressed
after the power had been switched off. Whether this would have any ill
effects I do not know. For this to work the power switch would have to be
set to hibernate the machine. In XP this is done with Start>Control
Panel>Performance and Maintenance>Power Options>Advanced and set the power
button to Hibernate. Some computers do not have a Hibernate function.

This is an unusual but interesting problem.
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Something to keep a few engineers busy for a week maybe ;-)
 
I think the answer (if there is one!) lies in hibernating the machine but
leaving the power on. This would eliminate the need to boot up the computer.
Some sort of program that would hibernate the computer for a given length of
time is needed. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Alternatively, if the machine was hibernated and the power switched off, a
clock timer might restart the machine if the power switch was depressed
after the power had been switched off. Whether this would have any ill
effects I do not know. For this to work the power switch would have to be
set to hibernate the machine. In XP this is done with Start>Control
Panel>Performance and Maintenance>Power Options>Advanced and set the power
button to Hibernate. Some computers do not have a Hibernate function.

This is an unusual but interesting problem.

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Frank Bohan
¶ Three out of four people make up 75% of the population.
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The BIOS on one of my computers can set a wake-up time. It is a fairly
recent computer sporting a 1.4G processor so anything manufactured
since would possibly have a similar function.
 
The BIOS on one of my computers can set a wake-up time. It is a fairly
recent computer sporting a 1.4G processor so anything manufactured
since would possibly have a similar function.
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My understanding of the wake-up header is that it defines what i/o
devices (USB, mouse, kbd) can be used to wake-up the system from,
say, hibernation. The OP wants something which will actually turn his
computer on at a determined time - ie switch the power and boot up.

Even though your mobo allows wake-up to be effected at a particular
time, that won't actually turn the power on and boot up ... afaik.
 
Does anyone know of a freeware program that will let me specify a
specific time for my computer to turn on. If I could set different
times for different days of the week that would but great but if I have
to set a default time for all days that will be good to. Thanks in
advance for your help.
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The only way I know of, besides having an option in the BIOS to turn on at
a specific time, is to have a second computer tell the first computer to
turn on using a WOL (WakeOnLAN) type program.

The original site I got the program I use seems to be gone now, but thanks
to the WayBack Machine here it is:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030714105957/www.gknw.com/wol.html

Freeware as far as I can tell.
 
My understanding of the wake-up header is that it defines what i/o
devices (USB, mouse, kbd) can be used to wake-up the system from,
say, hibernation. The OP wants something which will actually turn his
computer on at a determined time - ie switch the power and boot up.

Even though your mobo allows wake-up to be effected at a particular
time, that won't actually turn the power on and boot up ... afaik.
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After some experiment I can confirm this. It appears that it wakes
from stand-by but not from power off at least as far as I tested,
 
David said:
After some experiment I can confirm this. It appears that it wakes
from stand-by but not from power off at least as far as I tested,
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It would seem that this would solve the problem if the computer was
hibernated with the power left on. Personally I would not know how to set
the BIOS to wake up at a certain time. Would this have to be a fixed time
each day, or could a script be devised to activate the waking-up process at
a required time each day?

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Frank Bohan
¶ Red ship crashes into blue ship - sailors marooned.
 
It would seem that this would solve the problem if the computer was
hibernated with the power left on. Personally I would not know how to set
the BIOS to wake up at a certain time. Would this have to be a fixed time
each day, or could a script be devised to activate the waking-up process at
a required time each day?
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When a computer is hibernated it writes the contents of memory to a file
on the harddisk then powers-off. To resume from the hibernated state you
must power-on the computer (their are no wake from hibernation options).
 
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