Some people just don't think.

Thomas Daniels

Edo Tzumer wrote:

Is it possible or do I have to use CPP for such things?

It's possible in C#. Shut Down, Restart, Log off or Lock your computer in C#[^]

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LloydA111

I'm pretty surprised by the replies to this post. Has everyone suddenly forgot about the BIOS/real time clock that can be programmed with a date and time to boot?

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Hamed Musavi

It's possible. Write an app that schedules a task with the option to 'wake the computer to run the task' then put computer to sleep. Most modern computers go to a nearly switched off state when asleep.

RedDk

Jude 01:10

Florian Rappl

This is quite fancy :)

Lost User

I wrote an application some years ago that did exactly that - it was for recording digital tv through a tv card. Set the prog to record and it shut your computer down and woke it up in time to record the program. The program was actually written in Delphi, but c# would be fine. So before you and the other posters get on your high horses, perhaps you should check the facts ? What the poster asked (I haven't read the original, just your post here) is perfectly possible.

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jschell

OriginalGriff wrote:

Do they not teach people that computers don't run software when the power is off anymore?

First of course is the fact that people ask questions because they don't have the knowledge. In terms of answering the question a responder can either answer or not. Doesn't seem really relevant as to why they don't have the knowledge. Especially when one knows almost nothing about the poster - it could very well be that the poster never even had the opportunity to learn that. Second of course there can be many reasons one posts seemingly obvious questions. Especially these days were some people treat the internet the same as a office, classroom or coffee shop.

PJ Arends

I read the question you are refering to, and my take on it is that he wants to reboot his computer at a specified date and time, but he is getting stuck on the login password screen. He wants to know how to disable the login password screen for this reboot cycle, but have it enabled otherwise. Not a dumb question at all, just a poorly worded one.

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You missed requirement !! "in the past," :-)

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Mark_Wallace

I've managed to use lots of programs to shut down and restart my computer. It's the "at a specified date and time" that I can't quite get right -- I can only manage "at the worst possible date and time".

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And here is a link to MS's site with some info: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373235%28VS.85%29.aspx[^]

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I've been wanting to use that quote for quite some time now, this let me do so without offending somebody mortally.

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