Scheduled naps for my Vista ?

Pinkeyes

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OK, I posted a power saving thread on here not long ago, as I upgraded my "always on" pc and my power usage went from 60 Watts to 100 Watts.

In order to keep my costs down, I was planning on putting the box to sleep from about 1am until 8:30am saving quite a bit of power.

Vista only seems to "sleep" after a certain number of hours, and I cannot find a way to wake it up, without scheduled a task to do nothing (say open a test file) and tick the "wakeup" box in the task.

Is there any easy commands I can run to send him to sleep at 1am and wake him up at 8:30 ?

Thanks
Pinkeyes
 
i'd do what you've said..

and schedule a 'shutdown -s' (i think, in a cmd window type "shutdown /?" to see what *** command for sleep is, i'm on my xp laptop, think it's -s in vista... (that does shutdown in xp)
 
bledd. said:
i'd do what you've said..

and schedule a 'shutdown -s' (i think, in a cmd window type "shutdown /?" to see what *** command for sleep is, i'm on my xp laptop, think it's -s in vista... (that does shutdown in xp)
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shutdown -s is just shutdown according to the help, but it makes me wonder if that invokes the start button "off" routine which in Vista you can decide what that does. Sleep being one of the options. I'll have a test. Thank you.
Any idea how to get it to wake ? or am I going to have to run a dummy task which includes a wake. Maybe a robocopy to do a backup at a set time...?


Lumeycom said:
Any reason to have the box on at all when your not at it?

/just curious!
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It has a TV card in there running GBPVR so schedules recording TV program. Its my Xampp Web server. It is also used to schedule big downloads outside the 4pm till midnight "peak time" by ISP enforce.
Lastly I quite often remote into it using Terminal Services from work to test my firewall configurations, and anything from outside the network. Being a college this is quite often.

If I can't get the power usage down, my next plan is to play with Wake-On-Lan and get it to wake up when I need it...
 
just had a look, and it doesn't have a sleep option..

download pstools from ms, extract to the system32 folder and use psshutdown, that can send to sleep
 
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