Timed Shortcut for sleep/hibernation?

websquad said:

What I really want is to have two icons on my desktop: one for hibernate and one for sleep.

Here's this one, I don't see one for the other yet.

Sleep Shortcut - Create

Task Scheduler - Put Computer into Standby Mode

Hibernate Shortcut - Create

google for sleep.exe, download it & stick it somewhere in your path, i use c:\windows. make a batch file for the desired action as above with sleep.exe <seconds> as the first line under the @echo off. 3600 secs=1 hr, 7200 secs=2 hrs, etc. one source is http://unattended.msfn.org/files/global/sleep.zip, they have a 64 bit version somewhere there as well. another source for the 32bit is microsoft's download centre, but you need to get the whole server resource kit utils pack, it's only 11mb tho.

ie.

@echo off
sleep.exe 7200
<command>
exit

would wait 7200 secs then run the <command>, 'exit' command optional :).

you could save the batch files in c:\windows, paste links to them on the desktop, you can change the default icon on the link in properties where you cannot easily change the icon on the batch files...

sleep.exe is a rather old dos command someone compiled to allow a timed delay in batch files & has nothing to do with putting the pc in the sleep state. name was coincidental.

there is another sleep.exe at http://www.gammadyne.com/cmdline.htm that IS a util that allows sleep or hybernate from the command line. obviously if you get both, rename one, ie. rename the delay one to delay.exe. OR rename the sleepy one to powerstate.exe or similar. or rename both


You can also do a delay using ping.exe (not CPU intensive).

Example on delay of approx. 5 seconds (number behind -n is seconds +1): command line is:

ping.exe -n 6 localhost >nul

not sure how that would work on large n values.

FliGi7 said:

If you go into Power Options and disable hibernation, that command will cause the PC to go into Sleep mode instead.

You actually just turn off Hyrbid Sleep.

~Lordbob

Are you guys missing the power shell? When I was dabbling with Ubuntu, I had some aliases set up in my bashrc. file, when I was experimenting with the Terminal. I see Windows has stol, er, borrowed this. In Linux I had as an alias "zzz <x amount of minutes>" and it would run the bash command sudo shutdown -h <minutes> .

I haven't investigated the PowerShell yet but maybe someone knows?...:)

FliGi7 said:

Lordbob75 said:

FliGi7 said:

If you go into Power Options and disable hibernation, that command will cause the PC to go into Sleep mode instead.

You actually just turn off Hyrbid Sleep.

~Lordbob

What exactly are you referring to here? Who turns off Hybrid Sleep and how?

Windows Does Not Start After Sleep

~Lordbob