I've got a windows home server that's just great for backups and the like, but I'd like to reduce my power consumption.
What the best way to put it on a timer, say wake up daily at 6pm and shutdown if activity is less than 3% at 1am?
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Lights Out is a good option (as already suggested). You may also like to try a program I recently wrote. It lets you hibernate and wake-up your PC according to configurable rules. I originally wrote it because I thought the full version of Lights Out was too expensive! You can find it here: http://ignatu.co.uk/SmartPower.aspx |
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Lights Out can sleep and wake the computer as demand changes or on a schedule. |
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I know my Bios actually allows me to turn on/off the pc at certain times. For the less then 3% that is a bit more tricky. So far the only thing in my googling that turned anything up is this program. |
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Some BIOSes has that option to turn on computer at certain time. You can use some other computer to WakeOnLan. |
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