To reduce your computer's energy consumption, you just need to put it into sleep mode; the same method increases the loading speed of the operating system by not turning it on and rebooting.
Another undeniable advantage of this method is the ability to set the time to exit sleep mode to start the necessary tasks.
Instructions
1. Click the “Start” menu button in the lower left corner of the monitor. Select “All programs”, then “Accessories” - “Services”. Click the “Task Scheduler” button to open this program.
2. Click “Create a task” in the “Actions” column on the right (not “Create a simple task”). We assign a name for the building. You can also write a task description. No other settings need to be changed.
3. Click on the “Triggers” tab, then “Create”. In the menu that appears, select the “Schedule” option. We mark the desired frequency of the task with a checkbox, for example, daily, weekly, monthly. We set the desired date and time when your personal computer will come out of the sleep state. We set the necessary settings for each option (daily, weekly, etc.). Click "Ok".
4. Click on the “Actions” tab, then “Create”. Click in the menu that appears next to “Action” and select the action after the personal computer wakes from sleep mode. Usually this is launching some program or sending email. If you just need to wake up your PC, select the bottom option, Display Message, and then set some information to display after waking up. If you select “Run a program,” then mark the program to start after the personal computer wakes from sleep mode. If you checked “Sending email”, then fill out the required lines. After all these operations, click “Ok”.
5. Click on the “Conditions” tab. Check the box next to “Wake up the computer to complete a task.” It is this option that will wake up your favorite computer on which it is installed. Windows Vista strictly at the time you specified. You don't have to change anything in the Options tab. Click "Ok". Now your personal computer will “wake up” at the time you specified and, if necessary, perform the required task.
Notes
If your beloved computer is left unattended, it is still better to check the power settings to make sure that the computer will go to sleep mode after a certain time.
If your personal computer is configured so that a screen asking you to log in appears after waking from sleep mode, this will not prevent you from sending email or starting a program. However, if you want to see the text, you will have to log in first.
Modern technologies are reaching such a level of perfection every day that any work process becomes automated. If you think about it, soon a person will no longer need to get up every day and cook breakfast for himself, since smart machines will be able to do everything for him. Take even into account the film Surrogates, where all movements, going to work, to clubs and other establishments, are carried out by robots, controlled by the mind of a person sitting in a chair at home. This may be a fictional story, and it will not happen in the next couple of years, but the fact remains a fact. And all this means that you can now turn on and off your PC and launch programs automatically. Those. While you are sleeping, your PC or laptop can turn on on its own and carry out the planned operations.
How to automatically turn on a laptop or PC
There can be many reasons for such an operation. Whatever it is, you are still here and want to know the solution to this problem. If it concerns a computer, then you should help will come task scheduler. I will not describe it here, since you can find many examples on the Internet, and there are no difficulties with it. As for the laptop, things are somewhat different here. Although I can’t say for sure about all models, since I only tested it on my laptop and encountered the same problem. In general, here are three working examples that will help when turning on your PC automatically:
- standard task scheduler (available in every Windows OS),
— Bios setting,
- additional software.
I’m omitting the first two examples because I haven’t tried them, but we’ll talk about the third below.
Auto Power-on & Shut-down
It's very easy to schedule your laptop or PC to turn on using a handy program called Auto Power-on & Shut-down. With its help, you can easily select the required start time for your stationary machine. Here is its approximate interface (it all depends on the version):
The picture shows the Russian version, which is very convenient for those who are completely far from English. What is also attractive about it is that you can record any actions that you see on the monitor. Those. you can even record actions like: opening a browser, launching the necessary pages (although this can be done using startup, but not always), programs, etc. This is what creating any new task looks like:
The laptop does not turn on, even after installing Auto Power-on & Shut-down, what should I do?
This also happens, this is exactly the case that was written about above, and which I encountered. I installed the program on my PC, scheduled it to turn on at 5 am, and everything was fine. The program worked, the computer started. After some time I decided to install it on my laptop. I made the same settings and tested it in practice. However, the result was not positive, inclusion does not occur. The way out of this situation is not to turn off the laptop, but to hibernate. In this case, the program works with a bang. Well, then everything depends on your wishes. The program has many settings and all of them are available in the cracked version.
Here is a simple and proven method that I use. If you have other options, don't worry, the main task is what? That's right, efficiency, and everyone can have their own ways to achieve it.
Today there is a sufficient amount of software with which we can control the automatic turning on of the computer according to a schedule. But I want to note that automatically turning on the PC using programs is only possible when it is in “sleep” mode.
That is, a computer that is in “sleep mode,” as it would be easier to say, is already turned on. It simply “wakes up” and does not turn on.
It turns out (I was ashamed not to know this :)), you can configure the computer to automatically turn on according to a schedule and even when it is COMPLETELY OFF! Modern BIOSes that come with PC motherboards have settings to automatically turn on a switched off computer according to a schedule.
At the beginning of my acquaintance with computers (since 1995), such a setting in the BIOS could only be dreamed of. For what purposes you can use turning on the computer automatically is up to you to decide.
For example, from the most banal - using a PC as an alarm clock, turning it on to distribute or download torrents while you are away, servicing your computer, or even when you are at work or on a business trip, etc.
I note that the fourth computer I tested, purchased 6 years ago, did not yet have this capability. Let's now move directly to the BIOS settings.
How to enter the BIOS depends on your configuration motherboard, mainly by pressing the Delete or F2 key on the keyboard at the initial stage of booting the computer. You can see a hint on the required keys immediately when you turn on the PC.
AUTOMATICALLY TURNING ON THE COMPUTER
BIOS American Megatrends Inc. P1.80, 05/20/2011. Go to the “Advanced” section and select “ACPI Configuration”.
Turn on the “Restore on AC/Power Loss” setting to the “Power On” position.
We activate (“Enabled”) the auto-on setting “RTC Alarm Power On”.
We select to turn on the computer every day (“Every Day”) or on a certain date within the current month in the “RTC Alarm Date Every Day” settings. We configure the time to turn on the PC: “hour/minute/second” in “RTC Alarm Time”.
After completing the settings, press the F10 key or the “Save Changes and Exit” and “OK” item to save the settings and restart the PC.
BIOS American Megatrends Inc. V4.3, 10/21/2009. We need the “Power Management Setup” section, go to it.
Turn on the “Restore On AC Power Loss” setting to the “On” position.
Activate “Resume By RTC Alarm”.
We set the activation for every day or on a specific date of the month in the “Data” setting and hours/minutes/seconds in “HH:MM:SS”.
Save the settings and exit the BIOS using F10.
BIOS American Megatrends Inc. 0401, 05/05/2010. In the “Power” section, go to “ARM Configuration”.
We activate “Restore on AC Power Loss” to the “Power On” position.
Activate “Power On By RTC Alarm”.
Settings for daily activation at certain hours/minutes/seconds become available.
Or a specific date, hours/minutes/seconds.
If you no longer need to automatically turn on your computer on a schedule, simply disable (“Disabled”) the “Power On By RTC Alarm” setting.
Unfortunately, those are all the options. BIOS versions, on which I was able to test the function - automatically turning on the computer. If you have a different basic input/output system (BIOS), then you will already know where to dig. And finally, I suggest you watch a short video
Very simple program TimePC to turn off the computer on a schedule. It will also turn it on according to a schedule that you set up yourself.
There are situations when the computer is performing some task, and you urgently need to run somewhere. Well, you just can't be late. It is not good to interrupt the process, and not to complete it is also bad.
And many people don’t like to fall asleep in complete silence and turn on music or just a movie to do this. If only it made noise. A person is resting, but the computer continues to work and overheat.
Well, to prevent this from happening, let’s establish special program – TimePC. Using this program, you can command the computer to turn off at certain time.
Although in operating system there is something similar (power settings), but standard function It does not turn off the computer completely, but only puts the computer into sleep mode. Not bad, but still not the same compared to the TimePC program.
The program has additional useful features. In addition to the fact that it can automatically turn off the computer at a time specified by the user, it can also turn it on. Even run, at the user’s request, some program or several programs.
Let's see how simple it is. The program is displayed in three languages, but after installing it the interface will be in Russian. You won't have to change anything.
In the settings you can uncheck the “ Close open source software when turning off“
The fact is that when we turn off the computer with this program, we can choose one of two modes. The first is a normal shutdown, as we are all used to, the second is hibernation.
Hibernation(hibernation) is translated from English as “hibernation” or simply “sleep.” In this mode, the computer rests, but before turning off, it remembers everything that was open and running and saves it in the right place on a non-volatile storage device.
This is very convenient if you did not have time to complete work in some programs or open folders. When you turn on the computer, everything will remain in its place.
Next item “ Check for updates“Here I also unchecked the box. Who knows, maybe the programmers missed something somewhere and the program will start not working correctly. Well, for now I’m happy with this working version, I’m working with it, without updating.
Let's move on to the main thing. In the left column select “Off/On PC”
On the right side of the program, check the box next to “ Turn off the computer“We set the shutdown time, but we don’t have to touch the date, it is already substituted for the date configured on the computer. Unless you want to turn off your PC tomorrow or in a few days.
Now you need to select the shutdown mode. As I wrote above, there are two modes. Choose which one is more convenient for you. You can also schedule it to turn on after a certain time. Once configured, click the “Apply” button and check if everything is correct. If you made a mistake in the time or date, you can click the “Cancel” button and reconfigure everything.
We’ve sorted out the one-time setup, now let’s move on to “” Everything is the same here. We set the time to turn off and turn on the computer for a whole week. There is no sleep mode in the scheduler.
Once configured, click the “Run” button and check if everything is correct.
By the way, before the computer turns off, the program will notify you about it 30 seconds in advance. If you are at the computer at this moment, you can turn it off by clicking on the button labeled “STOP.” Go to “ Launching programs”
Here we can specify the program that we want to run along with the operating system. For example, a player with music. You will get an unusual alarm clock. We can add a browser to the player so that we can check our emails right away in the morning. TimePC allows you to run several programs at once.
Click the “Add” button. An explorer window will open. In the left column, select “Desktop.” In most cases, when installing a program, it leaves its shortcut on the desktop. From the desktop, select the shortcut for the program you need. You need to look for programs that come with Windows on drive C in the Program Files or C:\Windows folder. Let's say standard program Notepad which is located at C:\Windows\system32
To remove a program from autorun, you need to select it and click the “Remove” button.
And that's all. Download the program and use it.
Download from Yandex disk
This is useful to know:
Greetings, blog readers! In this lesson, we will look at the situation of using a computer as an alarm clock, or more precisely, turning on or.
I think every novice user has faced the question of how to turn off the computer on a schedule? After all, there are situations when a computer performs a certain task, for example, downloading information that is important for us from the Internet, or it can be recording data, or some other significant tasks that must be brought to their logical conclusion from the moment they are placed in the execution queue .In this case, the completion of the task can be expected at a fairly late hour, for example, only by 5 o’clock in the morning. Of course, in this case you can use additional functions programs that allow you to configure the computer to shut down after a successful operation. But what if some programs do not have such functions to turn off the computer after completing a task?
In this case, it is advisable to use the program automatic shutdown computer, which is called “Task Scheduler”.
In the Windows 7 operating system, the task scheduler is present from the moment the system itself is installed. Using the task scheduler, you can manage the power of your computer by specifying a specific command. In order to open the task scheduler, you need to click on the “Start” button and type “Scheduler” in the search bar. To enlarge the pictures, click on the pictures.
After that, left-click on it and as a result the main window of the task scheduler will open. Then we will need to open the “Create a simple task” section.
In the new window that opens, we will need to set the necessary settings. First, specify a name, for example, “Turn off the computer.”
In the next item “Description” you can specify the task being performed by the computer, for example, “Switching off the computer at 05-00”.
After that, click “Next” and in the next window indicate the startup type. Here you can pin the task you are creating so that, for example, it is executed daily. I select the startup type “One-time” and in the next paragraph I indicate the time to turn off the computer, namely at 05-00.
After you have set the time to turn off the computer, you will need to click “Next”. IN next step we will need to select a computer shutdown program. Click “Browse” and select Shutdown.exe, located at: local disk C - Windows - System32 - Shutdown.exe.
In the “Argument” line we will need to enter the “-s” command, which is responsible for turning off the computer. At the final stage, click “Next” and then “Finish” and minimize the task scheduler window.
When the time comes when the computer needs to shut down, a notification will appear indicating that the computer will shut down in one minute.
Thus, using the task scheduler, it will be possible to turn off the computer at a time we have previously set.
Let's consider another example when the computer needs to be turned on specified time(set up the alarm function for your computer). To do this, we use the same task scheduler. Open the main scheduler window and click “Create task”.
In the new window that opens, on the “General” tab, enter the name of the alarm clock, for example, turning on the computer or. In the “Description” item you can write the computer to turn on, for example at 07-00. In the “Configure for” drop-down tab, I recommend selecting Windows 7 (if you have Windows system 7).
Then go to the next tab - this is “Triggers”, and click “Create”. As a result, the “Create a trigger” window will open, in which you will need to set the time for the alarm to turn on; in addition, in the “Options” item you can set the frequency of the alarm clock: daily, weekly, monthly. After you have set all the necessary settings, click “OK”.
Thus, the scheduled task of turning on the computer will appear in the field in the “Triggers” tab. Next, you will need to go to the “Actions” tab and click on the “Create” button. In the window that opens, click on the “Browse” button and select for yourself, for example, your favorite music file that will be played when the alarm clock turns on. Once you have selected the music file, click OK.
In the next tab “Conditions” you will need to check the box “Wake up the computer to complete the task” and then click “OK”.
Thus, we set up an alarm clock for the computer. Finally, you will need to put the computer into hibernation or sleep mode. To do this, click on the “Start” button and click on the additional shutdown menu and select “Sleep” or “Hibernation”. Within 30 seconds, the computer will go into sleep mode and turn on at the time you set. In my example, the player was used Windows Media Player. Oh, by the way, do not forget to adjust the volume of your player, otherwise it may turn out that the computer turns on, but the volume of the player is turned off.
It should be noted that there are quite a lot of programs that include not only the functions of turning the computer on and off, but also contain various reminders, diaries, I would like to introduce you to one of these programs. The program is called . This program is distributed absolutely free and has quite wide functionality in terms of computer power management, you can download it by clicking the link below.
After you download this program, unpack the archive and run the file PowerOff63_RUS.exe, which will open the main program window, which, as you can see, contains various computer power management tabs.
By default, the first tab “Timers” opens, which contains: information, additional features, CPU load. In the additional features section of the “Schedule” tab, you can set the time to turn off the computer, select all days or a specific day and set the time accordingly.
The following tabs allow you to customize the diary to your liking, I think everything is clear here. In the “Hot Keys” tab you can assign system control to various commands. Let's say, to set some system management command, you will first need to check the box and then press and, while holding the Ctrl key, additionally click on any Latin letter.
The next tab, “Scheduler,” allows you to set a specific task and display it at a specified point in time. For example, you can tell the program to open text file at a given point in time.
In the next tab “Program Settings”, to ensure automatic start Poweroff, you need to check the boxes as shown in the figure. At the same time, at your discretion, you can edit the “Texts” that will be displayed when the computer goes into sleep mode, when you shut down, or reboot. I left the rest of the settings at default.
In general, there is nothing difficult to manage; you just need to work with this program a few times and you will already acquire the necessary skills in managing the system.
That's all for today. I hope that after reading this material, you will know how to enable and! See you in the next lesson!