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    Disabling wake timers in vista

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by funky monk, Mar 23, 2011.

  1. funky monk

    funky monk Notebook Deity

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    I have pretty much no use for wake timers and they're a constant irritation given that they can turn on my laptop when it's in a bag. In windows 7 there is an option in the power menu to turn wake timers off but there isn't one in vista. However I would assume thst it simply toggles a few registry values which vista will quite likely also have hidden away somewhere. Does anyone know how you would do this in vista/where said value reside?
     
    funky monk, Mar 23, 2011
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    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    Look into the "Task Scheduler". It is how both Vista and Win7 implement these sorts of things.

    Gary
     
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    That's only really covering up the problem. As far as I can tell there's nothing in task scheduler which should wake my PC (although windows task scheduler is a bit of a mess imo, it's difficult to tell what's really going on). I simply want to make it so that wake timers are completely disabled, that way if a new program decides to try something clever and create another one, I can be confident in knowing it will fail miserably.
     
    funky monk, Mar 24, 2011
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