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IT Dojo: Make your Windows XP machine wake up when you do [video]
If you use Windows XP’s Hibernation feature on your laptop or desktop to put your system to sleep at the end of the day, you can schedule your system to “wake up” in the morning. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shows you how to use the Scheduled Task Wizard so your machine will be ready and waiting for you, just as if you had left it on all night.
If you use Windows XP’s Hibernation feature on your laptop or desktop to put your system to sleep at the end of the day, you can schedule your system to “wake up” in the morning. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler shows you how to use the Scheduled Task Wizard so your machine will be ready and waiting for you, just as if you had left it on all night.
For those of you who prefer text to video, you can also read Greg Shultz’s article, “Wake a hibernating Windows XP machine based on your schedule,” on which this video is based.
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