Shutdown or Hibernate Time Scheduling Software

Hi Guys

I am looking for a software which will help me do Time Scheduling to
Make my PC shutdown after a specific time interval or
make my PC go in Hibernate Mode after a specific time interval & also wake up
automatically from Hibernate Mode and start a few softwares.

Is there any software which can help me in doing this.

Please let me know.

For eg.

PC currently on state and you feed the schedule in the software.
Current Time is 7:00AM & Certain Software sare running in the Bkgnd.

I should be able to to do Scheduling for a week or 2

30 May 2005
Monday
8:00AM - Hibernate
12 Noon - wake from Hibernate and start & run the following softwares
6:00PM - Shutdown or go to Hibernate Mode.

31 May 2005
Tuesday
7:00AM - Wake from Hibernate Mode start & run following the softwares
8:00AM - Hibernate
12 Noon - wake from Hibernate and start the following softwares
6:00PM - Shutdown or go to Hibernate Mode.

Like this.

This feature so far i have seen only with the Compro Videomate Gold Series
cards they provide a software for PowerUp Scheduling.
Thats exactly what i want.

A software which wud help me do this without the Compro Card.
Power Up

Indeed, one of the most powerful features of Compro VideoMate TV Ultra is “Power Up Schedulingâ€, which can wake up your PC from S3, S4*, and S5 mode and automatically record your favorite programs into your hard disk. By doing this, you can do video editing as well, such as cutting commercials. In short, with Power Up Scheduling, you don't have to hurry home to watch MLB World Series. You can even setup Power Up Scheduling to record “Friends†from Monday to Friday.

* S4 power up needs the motherboard support S4 mode power management

Is such a thing possible with some Software.

Found Some thing

1.> POWERUP AND SCHEDULED RUNNING
http://www.c-prompt-dev.com/JSOFUserManFrame.htm?http://www.c-prompt-dev.com/JSOFUserMan_PowerUp.htm

2.> From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO [Dont know if useful]
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html

3.> Remote PowerUp [In Lan]
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/archive/index.php/t-17299.html

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Quad Master posted 58.13 minutes later:

After Googling "hibernate wakeup software"

Hit all these beautiful Softwares to solve my problems.

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PowrClik Suite 2.7.3.94
StandBy / Wake Up / Hibernate / Lock / Log Off / Restart / Power Off / Disconnect computer / Turn off monitor / Run file / Prevent suspend or shut down (+ much more) immediately (by click or command line) or scheduled (by timer, event or script).

Screenshot:- http://genntt.webs.com.ua/scr2.jpg

Description:
- Power saving, shutdown and automation software.

Four utilities:
- PowrRun to launch any application with System credentials,
PowrSaver tweaker to extend monitor power saving features of any screen saver,
- PowrClik Lite and Pro to maintain power saving and shut down functions of your system (plus additional functions concerning the matter).

Execution: immediate by one click or by command line, scheduled by timer or by event (several thousands of possible events), automated via script.
Support of MS Windows scripts (VBScript, JScript, etc.).

Main functions: enter computer on standby, wake up from standby, enter computer into hibernation, log off Windows session, restart computer, power off computer.

Additional functions: run screen saver, turn off monitor, lock computer, hang up modem connection, run Task Scheduler, run file, play sound on alarm, measure performance.
Preventive functions: disable screen saver, prevent suspend mode activation, prevent Windows shut down.
Link:- http://www.allworldsoft.com/software/17-383-powrclik-suite.htm

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PassMark Sleeper

Version: V2.1 build 1001
Release Date: 12 / Apr / 2005
Price: Free for personal use
Platforms: Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP, 2003
Requirements: 32MB Ram

Overview:
Sleeper is a small utility program developed by PassMark Software to help test the ability of PC systems to enter and recover from sleep and hibernation. It has been designed to work with PassMark BurnInTest but will also work with 3rd party applications. Sleeper allows you to,

* Put a PC into any sleep state (S1, S2, S3) supported by the system
* Place your PC into hibernation (S4)
* Wake the computer after a specified period of time.
* Put a PC to sleep or hibernation from the command line
* Force the PC into the requested sleep state
* Cycle through all sleep states or just all states supported by the system
* Launch Sleeper from BurnInTest scripts to test sleep states between test runs.
* Display the supported sleep states

Sleep, standby & hibernation background information:

Power management is an integral feature of most new computers. With laptops and wireless computing on the rise it is especially important to have strict control and reliability when it comes to your systems power states. Most modern computer systems support at least the following basic power states.

Working
The system is fully on. Some devices may independently conserve power if there usage falls below a certain threshold.
Sleeping
The system seems as though it’s shut down. Power consumption is reduced to one of the three sleep levels (see below). The lower the level, the more power that is conserved, but the longer it takes for the system to wake. Mouse movement or key presses will usually wake the system.
Soft Off or Hibernate
The system appears to be off. Power consumption is very low. For a hibernate, the operating system context is saved out to disk and no longer exists in RAM. Wake up usually results in hardware boot, but not software boot.
Mechanical Off
No power consumption. A full reboot will be required to start up the system.

ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) is an industry wide standard that defines a power management and configuration mechanism for hardware and operating systems. ACPI defines six discrete power states. Lower states consume more power, but have a smaller latency on wake up.
S0 – Working
S1 – Sleeping
S2 – Sleeping
S3 – Sleeping
S4 – Hibernate
S5 – Off
Sleeper allows the user to put the system into sleep state S1, S2, S3 or S4. To turn off or reboot the computer, see the Rebooter application also available from PassMark. Note that not all computer systems will support all power states. It is not unusual for just S1 and S4 to be supported or S1, S3 and S4. Attempting to put a system into an unsupported state results in the next lowest supported state being chosen.

ScreenShot:- http://www.passmark.com/images/sleeperscreenshot1.gif

Link:- http://www.passmark.com/products/sleeper.htm

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Shut Down Expert 4.57

Shut Down Expert is an award-winning software designed for turn off and wake up your computer programmatically.

Keywords:- Shut Down Expert, Zyl Soft, Shut Down Expert, Turn On, Turn Off, Wake up,
Computer, PC, Hibernate, Battery, Remote Control, automatically, programmatically,
start, lock, idle, schedule, timer, sleep, resume, power

It is extended to support other programmable local and remote events.
It works under any 32 bit Windows operating system.
It supports more type of events.
- Turn Off (to turn off the computer)
- Turn On (this option will hibernate the computer and will turn it on at the specified time)
- Restart (to restart the computer)
- Log Off (to log off the current user)
- Turn Off Monitor (to turn off the display)
- Screen Saver (to turn the screen saver on)
- Standby- Hibernate (hibernate the computer)
- Wake Up (wake up the computer from Hibernation, Standby, Monitor Off and Screen Saver modes)
- Start Application (to execute an application)
- Close Application (to close an application)
- Empty Recycle Bin
- Empty Clipboard
- Eject CD-ROM
- Close CD-ROM
- Capture Screen (to capture the screen in a bitmap)
- Message (this option will give a message alert)
- Send Message (this option will send a message to other computers)
- Download
- Custom keyboard eventsYou can also generate remote events on remote machines if your

IP address is set as a server on the remote machine.
At the setting of the event`s execution time you can choose between more options:-
You can specify exactly the date and the time of the event
- You can specify an interval of time relative to a specified date and time- You can specify an interval of time relative to the actual moment
- You can specify an event that will be executed in that moment
- You can specify a time when an event will be executed every day

The settings will be available after a power failure or a restart of the computer too.
Shut Down experts supports DCD infrared remote control receivers through WinLirc.
In this way you can control your computer through any remote control.

OS:- Win95,Win98,WinME,WinNT 3.x,WinNT 4.x,Windows2000,WinXP,Windows2003

Screenshot:- http://www.zylsoft.com/sde.jpg

Link:- http://www.gold-software.com/ShutDownExpert-review19795.htm

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Shut UP 2.1.1

Shut UP! is a tray-based tool that can reboot or shut down your PC at the time(s) you specify.
Just select the time of the day and check off the day(s) of the week you want your computer to
close down or restart; Shut UP! takes care of the rest.

OS:- Windows 95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP

Screenshot:- http://www.uk-software.com/images/shutdownsettings.jpg

Link:- http://www.allworldsoft.com/software/13-827-shut-up.htm

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RebootEx 2.11

RebootEx is a system utility for Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems that allows to automatically shutdown, reboot and/or relogon to your computer.
The program provides the following key features:
- Ability to reboot, shutdown, shutdown & power off the computer, log off the current user,
shutdown remote computer and schedule logon after reboot.
- A number of additional command line options makes it a highly scriptable efficient and secure tool.

OS:- Windows NT,2000,XP

Screenshot:- http://www.ashkon.com/images/rebootex.gif

Link:- http://www.allworldsoft.com/software/13-658-rebootex.htm

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EugeneShutdown 1.00

EugeneShutdown is a system utility for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP operating systems that allows to automatically shutdown, power off, reboot or log off current user at a specific time on your local computer and initiate shutdown of remote computer. The program provides the following key features: ability to force shutdown, force if hung applications shutdown, shutdown remote computer with user-defined message and timeout.

OS:- Windows 95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP

Screenshot:- http://www.eugenesoft.com/images/EugeneShutdown-1.gif

Link:- http://www.allworldsoft.com/software/12-612-eugeneshutdown.htm

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Shutdown Monster 3.2.0.10
This software is a shutdown timer. This means, that you can make your computer to shut down
at a specified time. You can set a countdown, type in an exact date and time, or even specify a
file to check periodically

OS:- OS Windows 98,ME,2000,XP

Screenshot:- http://shutdown.sf.net/shutdown.jpg

Link:- http://www.allworldsoft.com/software/13-830-shutdown-monster.htm

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Auto ShutDown XP Professional 2003

ASD XP is the most advanced Auto ShutDown application on the market to date. The previous version of ASD was the first application of its kind to integrate unique functionality to give users complete control of shutdown management of PCs.

ASD XP exploits all the functionality Windows XP has to offer along with the .NET framework. ASD XP has been completely rewritten using C#. This means ASD XP is more efficient, faster and even easier to use.
The latest version brings new functionality some key functions include:

ShutDown Schedules
Pre-determined shutdown can now be based on daily, weekly or a specific date schedule.

Performance Counters - Conditional shutdown
Performance Counters can now be used as conditional shutdown of the PC, for instance when the data download rate drops to zero bytes for five minutes.

There can be over seven thousand different counters on a standard PC covering aspect such as Processor usage, Print queue through to network bandwidth.
ASD XP is the first application on the market to exploit performance counters in this way.

Prevent PC Restarts
Prevent users from restarting the PC once it has been shutdown for a period up to 24 hours.

Warning messages
Warning messages can be customised; a snooze button has also been added to let the user continue to use the PC for a few minutes more before it is shutdown.

Alarms
An optional alarm can sound when the warning message is displayed.

Remote systems
Remote systems can now be set to shutdown at specified times. They can also be shutdown from the ASD XP interface.

Clean Up
ASD XP can carry out routine tasks such clearing the recent documents history or run an application before the PC is shutdown.

User interface
The user interface of ASD XP is easy to use, you will appreciate how intuitive it from the first time you use it.

Lots of other functions and features such as Security, Quick Shutdown using the ASD XP t

Screenshot:- http://www.gillit.com/asdxp/images/asdxp.jpg

Link:- http://www.allworldsoft.com/software/17-617-auto-shutdown-xp-professional.htm

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Just Posted all the links here so that others might also find it easily
 
lol

and i was about to post all those myself only to find you hae answered your own question :p

good post though.. thread rated.
 
Any other solutions or softwares apart from these.

@Masky - i had created a VB Program for
Shutdown/LogOff/Software Launch after a
Specific Time interval or time matching the System Time

But due to HDD crash lost all my million dollar worth Programs & Ebooks
on Java , VB , Php , Perl , MySql , Oracle etc....

It was such a huge loss that i couldnt recollectall the info from where i had
downloaded.
 
@ masky
1.RS Somnifero ,
2.Switch off
both of these are timer based freeware autoshutdown tools. i particularly like Switch Off bcoz its very simple and lite.
 
all i want is a timer on my comp.. most of the times i am doing something in the kitchen and i come upstairs for a quick mail check and i completely forget about the kitchen :D.. i want something to remind me about it.. hence i need a timer :D
 
bluediamond said:
why dont u use the countdown timer in ur mobile! ;)

when i am sitting infront of my comp, my mobile is outta my reach.. :bleh:

Quad Master said:
U mean u want to the software shud ring a alarm "Masky Run to the Kitchen" ;)

lol.. that wud be like icing on the cake.. heheh..

Rave said:
download "Ace talking reminder, its quite old but does the job quite well ;)

googling it right now.. :D
 
Even i didnt knew this earlier until i found a software bundled with Compro Videomate Gold
Series that wud do this.
But just for this feature did not wanted to spend 1000 extra on the Compro card so
finally decided that first will check if such software solutions are available & so i hit the jackpot.

Masky - did you found the timer software u were looking for.
 
There is one that I use called Shut Down Scheduler. But in it you can only tell it to switch off after X number of hours, or days.
 
you freaking infidels, Reget will do all that you want 10 times better than individual softwares combined. you can use it as a timer, scheduler anything. just. take a look at my list of schedules. i had to do that cos my keyboard,mouse and monitor was locked up and i had to make max use of the time. but had to disconnect when dad was at home. i downloaded over 5 gbs of data without even touching my comp. all i had to do watch switch on my comp. you can have unlimited schedules running simulataneously. and theres nothing really you can't do. there is either some direct option in the list, or you can couple multiple schedules to get the desired work done.

To know what more you can do with this download manager just get one of those NFO files from crack sites, just get one of those cracks and open up the NFO files which comes with it. really informative for those who fail to realize reget's greatness.
 
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