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Windows 7 come out of sleep when I open remote desktop

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Mar 15, 202670111 views
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Is there any way to have a Windows 7 machine come out of sleep automatically when I try and connect to it with Remote Desktop? The power saving option of the machine I want to connect to (enforced by group policy I believe) is to sleep after 30 minutes, which means I have to either physically walk …

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Fix for: Windows 7 come out of sleep when I open remote desktop

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You'll need to send a magic packet (For Wake ON LAN) through your router. Difficult because router's don't forward these by default, but there are workarounds as found here: In order to wake up a computer from the Internet you need a Broadband conne…

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