Power utility?

[Guest Mark G.]

So I have been looking to see how to auto boot windows at specific times.

Nothing XP Pro can do by itself from what I see so I was turning to some

utilities out there. While quickly browsing I thought maybe some of you have

run across some good utilities for this very thing? Am trying to make my

computers turn off at certain days/time and then turn them on at certain

days/times. I have never really cared for the hibernate function built into

XP Pro plus I want to conserve some power by turning off machines when I

know I want be using them for a period of time or need access to them even

if briefly. A lot of utilities I briefly glanced at don't see to have a

function to boot or turn on a machine. One concern as well is if I set it to

auto login, what is the best route for this as I typically like the security

of having it logout automatically after extended periods of time. So I am

hoping that some of you would have some good suggestions on such a utility

for XP Pro that may be free or if need be, low cost? Would be much

appreciated!

[Guest Sampathn]

RE: Power utility?

 

Hi,

 

Up to my knowledge there is no such utilities running on the XP. But you can

use BIOS to set specific time. But only some of the BIOS versions give this

feature.

 

thx

 

"Mark G." wrote:

> So I have been looking to see how to auto boot windows at specific times.

> Nothing XP Pro can do by itself from what I see so I was turning to some

> utilities out there. While quickly browsing I thought maybe some of you have

> run across some good utilities for this very thing? Am trying to make my

> computers turn off at certain days/time and then turn them on at certain

> days/times. I have never really cared for the hibernate function built into

> XP Pro plus I want to conserve some power by turning off machines when I

> know I want be using them for a period of time or need access to them even

> if briefly. A lot of utilities I briefly glanced at don't see to have a

> function to boot or turn on a machine. One concern as well is if I set it to

> auto login, what is the best route for this as I typically like the security

> of having it logout automatically after extended periods of time. So I am

> hoping that some of you would have some good suggestions on such a utility

> for XP Pro that may be free or if need be, low cost? Would be much

> appreciated!

>

>

>

[Guest Detlev Dreyer]

Re: Power utility?

 

"Mark G." <askmefirst@comcast.net> wrote:

> So I have been looking to see how to auto boot windows at specific times.

> Nothing XP Pro can do by itself from what I see so I was turning to some

> utilities out there.

 

Windows is not running anymore after shutdown! Therefore, neither Windows

nor Windows based utilities can auto boot your system at specific times.

 

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d-d

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Power utility?

 

Look in your BIOS for the setting to boot at the desired time.

 

Mark G. wrote:

> So I have been looking to see how to auto boot windows at specific times.

> Nothing XP Pro can do by itself from what I see so I was turning to some

> utilities out there. While quickly browsing I thought maybe some of you have

> run across some good utilities for this very thing? Am trying to make my

> computers turn off at certain days/time and then turn them on at certain

> days/times. I have never really cared for the hibernate function built into

> XP Pro plus I want to conserve some power by turning off machines when I

> know I want be using them for a period of time or need access to them even

> if briefly. A lot of utilities I briefly glanced at don't see to have a

> function to boot or turn on a machine. One concern as well is if I set it to

> auto login, what is the best route for this as I typically like the security

> of having it logout automatically after extended periods of time. So I am

> hoping that some of you would have some good suggestions on such a utility

> for XP Pro that may be free or if need be, low cost? Would be much

> appreciated!

>

>