PC scheduling

JulyKnot

Ok, and remove the echo bit to see what is going on?

closed

yes, it's useless anyway for a scheduled job

you'll need to remove pauses before scheduling

JulyKnot

Ok that seemed to work.
i got a message asking if I wanted to run.
Then instruction to press any key
Did so and in went to sleep.
Moved mouse and first thing I saw was a second line prompting to press a key.

Will remove the pauses now and check it works.
Thanks for your patience, closed. I appreciate this is very basic but am using this as a starting point to learn.

JulyKnot

I presume when it is input into task scheduler, the running as administrator becomes irrelevant?
I'll try again and set it for in a minute.

closed

it's fairly advanced, not basic

what is the program you're trying to run

tronator

paddyrg wrote: »

Just remember the computer can't go into deep sleep, or it isn't running the scheduler, so light sleep/standby might be the best you can get, power savings not a great as you may hope

You can write a wake-up time into your BIOS and then shutdown the computer completely. My mythtv box does it all the time when not in use and it wakes up two minutes before the next recording is about to start.

I have no idea how to do this in Windows, but I think there is an option somewhere in the task scheduler to wake up the computer...

JulyKnot

Now this is strange. I did it manually again to check and it definitely sleeps fine.
I scheduled a basic task and input the batch file when it asked for a program and put a time.

.....And it makes it hibernate instead ( at least I think that's what it's doing. When I press the power button I get the resuming windows message rather than just needing to move my mouse when sleeping).
I've skimmed the next message. Would you believe I've never gone into BIOS. The thought scares me at the moment. One little step at a time. I'm determined to make this little task work.

closed

probably because it's not running as administrator

turn hibernation off beforehand, and test via schedule

JulyKnot

closed wrote: »

probably because it's not running as administrator

turn hibernation off beforehand, and test via schedule

I see. Sorry but how do I turn hibernation off? Don't worry, just googled and following instructions

closed

remove the powercfg -h on line

run it as administrator