topic Re: Auto/remote turn on/off in PCs & Accessories

Auto/remote turn on/off

mattbees — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 00:05:53 GMT

Is it possible to set my laptop to turn itselft on at a given time, or to turn it on from a remote location? I remember ages ago I knew someone who set their PC up to turn itself on and update itselft while he was at work and then shut itself down again when it finished updating. I dont necessarily want it to run updates but it would be dead handy if it could turn itself on and do various things while im away.

Thanks

Re: Auto/remote turn on/off

LEE — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 00:26:03 GMT

Had a quick look MattBees,

If you go into control Panel, click on, (Performance and Maintenence), then, (power Options), there does seem to be some options there, but not sure if they cover everything youre wanting to do. There's also the scheduled tasks feature in the performence and maintenece section, never used it myself but it looks like it could be a posssibility.

Re: Auto/remote turn on/off

kee-lo_ — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:21:11 GMT

These might help you.

Re: Auto/remote turn on/off

feederfan — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:21:51 GMT

i dont think you can use a piece of software to turn your computer on when its off as the software would need to be active, in RAM and the proccesor would need to be on, obviously if the computer is off, the Processor would be off and the RAM would be wiped. You might be able to wake it up from standby though?

Re: Auto/remote turn on/off

kee-lo_ — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:25:51 GMT

It needs to be in standby.
Gigapocket can do it

Re: Auto/remote turn on/off

mattbees — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:26:34 GMT

what if it was a remote computer on the network turning it on and off? is that possible?

Re: Auto/remote turn on/off

kee-lo_ — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:32:56 GMT

It's possible, but I wouldn't know what or where to point you for advise.

Re: Auto/remote turn on/off

feederfan — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:08:50 GMT

I think its possible but your system has to be on standby, which means that it is still 'on' just not booted up.

Re: Auto/remote turn on/off

kee-lo_ — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:25:48 GMT

Doesn't use much power in standby

Re: Auto/remote turn on/off

feederfan — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:12:39 GMT

Yeah but its not practical to keep it on standby if you are running on batteries!

Re: Auto/remote turn on/off

Psaila — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:14:40 GMT

It's possible, but I wouldn't know what or where to point you for advise.

Yes Its possible , set your internet to connect automatically and close Via Giga Pocket ,(I Hit The Standby button on remote ) And my PCV-W1 will close. Then open online and connect to the internet as I bring the PC out of standby. (By hitting my remote standby button) works fine In my case .

I can only think VAIO Zone or whatever its called that has replaced Giga Pocket , would allow you to do the same .

Please note that Giga Pocket will not go into standby while In record mode.

Re: Auto/remote turn on/off

Akanksha — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 03:39:12 GMT

wow, this functionality is there in W1, I never knew, great, I will try on my one too!

Re: Auto/remote turn on/off

feederfan — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:56:19 GMT

Wow, remote standby is pretty cool. I like remote desktop most though! I can sit in the garden using my desktop on my laptop over wifi, its brilliant!