Re: Firewall adaware keeps shutting off

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"Nonny" <i.m.nonnymous@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If the urge ever arises, don't ask us how to fix your task scheduler
when it fails to run when you shut your computer down!

Erm, well actually you can use the Task Scheduler to wake up the computer
to
do tasks.

It's quite difficult for the task scheduler to wake a computer that is
totally shut down. One might even say that it's impossible.
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Well that shows how much you know..

I wake up my computers that have been turned off very often, through a WoL
(Wake-on-LAN) page on one of my websites, when I want to access them through
Remote Desktop. I can also wake them up within the LAN once I am accessing
my server, which is never turned off.

Computers still use ~5W when they are turned off, and when WoL is enabled,
the NIC is still on. You have to turn them off using the switch on the PSU,
or physically unplug them from the mains to totally shut a computer down.

You can also set the computer to turn on automatically at a time set in the
BIOS settings of most computers.

And finally, yes, you can set Task Scheduler to turn a (ACPI) computer on,
as well. Computers have been using ACPI for over a decade, so you have a
bit of catching up to do. Have you even tried using it?

ss.


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