Windows speed and wake timers?

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Is it possible to set windows to turn on/off at set times?

i have a Plex server running windows 10 and there is a good 12 to 14 hours a day that it not been used but the system is sitting idle and just using power for the sake of it

From about 1am till 4pm the system could be powered off, but the system is sitting in the loft and it would be unpractical to go up there to turn on and off manually
 
Might be more elegant ways to do it but I did exactly the same by adding a task in task scheduler to sleep the computer then adding another task to just wake the computer. Obviously make sure to allow these tasks to wake the computer and what not and also to allow wake timers in windows.

Sleep task would run either a batch file or command prompt (can't quite find the sleep command ATM but with a Google I'm sure you can find it?

Wake task I just ran a batch file that immediately exits.
 
so if i make a batch file to tell the system to sleep in X hours i can make the system wake from sleep to run the file.
 
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