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Forcing Windows to be 'awake' during certain hours?

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Mar 15, 20268961 views
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I'm running Windows 7 and have the power options currently set up to put the machine to sleep after 2 hours of inactivity. Is there any way to force the machine not to sleep between certain hours, or to automatically wake up? I'm assuming this can't be done directly from within the Windows power se…

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To prevent the computer from going to sleep during those hours, you can create another power profile without a sleep timer. Then, you can apply the profile using Windows scheduler and the powercfg.exe tool. From a command-line box, first run It will…

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