Software for automatic power up/ shutdown?

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Patrick Pohlmann

Hello,

does anybody know a software to power up and shutdown Windows 98
automatically which is also able to start or end other programs
respectively shuts down the pc when another program is finished? In
the web I've only found software to shutdown or restart a running
computer. I know that it's possible to power up the system
automatically by means of the bios, but isn't there a more comfortable
possibility?

Thanks for any help,

Patrick
 
Patrick said:
does anybody know a software to power up and shutdown Windows 98
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You can't power up a PC from a powerless state with an app -- how
can the app be running if the PC is off?
 
Hi, Patrick.

does anybody know a software to power up and shutdown Windows 98
automatically which is also able to start or end other programs
respectively shuts down the pc when another program is finished?
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Win 9x can do this without any additional
software.

Command line for power off:
RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows

For reboot:
rundll32 shell32,SHExitWindowsEx 2

Make a batch file and put it into your Startup folder.
It may look like this:
=== start.bat ===
@echo off
start /w C:\Progra~1\MYPROG\program.exe
RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows
===== end of start.bat ===

This will start C:\Progra~1\MYPROG\program.exe,
wait until finished, then exits.

Good luck,
Peter.
 
You can't power up a PC from a powerless state with an app -- how
can the app be running if the PC is off?
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Yes, you can :-)

Mostly your BIOS will hold an 'alarm' function which can be used
to switch your PC on at any desired time.
 
(e-mail address removed) (Gerard Bok) wrote in @News.Individual.NET:
Yes, you can :-)

Mostly your BIOS will hold an 'alarm' function which can be used
to switch your PC on at any desired time.
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NO YOU CAN'T ........ read what the poster said, and I repeat,KEYWORDS ........... with an app

Read what the OP asked ....... and I repeat
I know that it's possible to power up the system
automatically by means of the bios, but isn't there a more comfortable
possibility?
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The OP was asking about OTHER THAN bios.
 
Gerard said:
Yes, you can :-)

Mostly your BIOS will hold an 'alarm' function which can be used
to switch your PC on at any desired time.
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Since when is a BIOS 'alarm' function an app?
 
Since when is a BIOS 'alarm' function an app?
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Yes, I would like to know, too. I have been always wondering
(have heard about this before). It is kind of cool if you
really can do that.



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