http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/08/edison_makes_your_pc_go_green-2/ tips and downloads to help you at work and play Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:13:50 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/08/edison_makes_your_pc_go_green-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2817 Jonathan Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:29:32 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/08/14/edison_makes_your_pc_go_green-2.html#comment-2817 <p>You can use the scheduler wake up the machine at a certain time and run a batch file containing powercfg -s to set the active scheme to something else. If you do this on Vista, be sure to also set the registry key for the Return to Sleep Timout for Unattended Wake Up in the power configuration you are switching to or the machine will go back to sleep after 2 minutes without user interaction.</p> You can use the scheduler wake up the machine at a certain time and run a batch file containing powercfg -s to set the active scheme to something else. If you do this on Vista, be sure to also set the registry key for the Return to Sleep Timout for Unattended Wake Up in the power configuration you are switching to or the machine will go back to sleep after 2 minutes without user interaction.

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