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Auto power on (or auto wake from hibernate)

i want to know if there is a way to make windows 7 home auto power up and shutdown. additionally, i would like to auto login as a guest account on startup.

the reason for doing this is that i want to be able to automatically shutdown 20 display model computers at night, and have them reboot in the morning without any human intervention. i did the math, and it is very cost effective, but my corporate overlords won't let this happen unless there is a way to spend zero work hours on it. they have asinine priorities.

anyhow, if auto power on is impossible, and it seems like it might be (without changing BIOS settings) then i am still pretty sure there is a way to auto schedule hibernation, and then schedule some task to run and allow it to wake the computer from sleep.

another option is an auto reboot, but with an eleven hour delay, which would effectively shut off the computer and accomplish my goal.

so... any ideas;p

thanks in advance.
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Hello zakbeck,

 

 I have included a link below from the Microsoft TechNet site about Task Scheduler Overview.  Please let us know status.

 

Task Scheduler Overview

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721871.aspx

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since it is impossible to auto boot a windows computer, i need help doing the next best thing, which is auto scheduling a wake up call, and automatic hibernate. tbh, i didn't realize that auto powering on was a difficult feature to build into a computer (my coffee maker has this feature;p and all apple computers afaik because they use UEF instead of BIOS).

so, to revise my earlier ???? s:

Q1: how do i auto hibernate the computer?
A1: power management under control panels.

Q2: how do i schedule auto wake from hibernate?
A2: use the task scheduler. tell the task scheduler to display message "good morning sunshine" at set time, and under advanced tabs, check the task to "allow wake from hibernate".

Q3: how do i sign in the guest account automatically after wake from hibernate?
A3:
1. Press the Windows Key and R
2. In the Open box, type "control userpasswords2" - don't include the quotations though...
3. You'll now see an tickbox that says "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer - untick it and enter your credentials.






any corrections or comments would be greatly appreciated.

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