Timed Shortcut for sleep/hibernation?

[SoulPursuer]

Hi, so I have 10,000msecond(2.7hour) shortcut to shutdown my computer ("C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 10000") which i use for watching films before bed, just encase i sleep half way through but I was wondering if there was a way to make a similar shortcut but instead of making your computer shutdown in a few hours make it sleep in a few hours time.

Now I know how to make a sleep shortcut but that makes the computer sleep instantly, and putting "-t 10000" at the end of "C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0" doesnt work. Apparently their is a way to do it if you install some software but I don't want that.

Anyone know if its possible with just windows command shotcuts?

 

[sygnus21]

I have no ideal how to do this, wasn't even aware you could, but that's an interesting scenero.

Be interesting to see what solutions are posted.

 

[severedsolo]

should work as you posted.... but you will need to disable Hybrid Sleep in Advanced Power options first

 

[SoulPursuer]

so putting "C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0" into the shortcut does make it sleep, and putting -t 10000 doesnt make it timed it just does it instantly.

Unless im doing something wrong anyone got any ideas?

 

[Lordbob75]

Try:
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState -t 10000 0,1,0
or removing the 0,1,0 altogether

~Lordbob

 

[SoulPursuer]

Try:
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState -t 10000 0,1,0
or removing the 0,1,0 altogether

~Lordbob

Nope that doesnt work either.

 

[FliGi7]

What I'd do is make a .bat file with this line in it:

echo schtasks /CREATE /SC ONCE /TR "C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0" /SD <start-date> /ST <start-time>

Then, say it's tonight around 11pm and you want to put the system to sleep at 1am, then <start-date> would be 6/19/10 and <start-time> would be 01:00.

Just edit the file to reflect whatever times you want, save it, then right click and run as admin to execute it and set up the scheduled task.

 

[SoulPursuer]

So that looks like it should work going to try it out in a bit but if anyone can find a way to do it without having to put them time in every time that would be awesome.

 

[FliGi7]

If it is always the same time of day/night you want it to sleep, then you can leave the time the same and omit the date and never have to change it. The problem comes if you want to shut off at 1am (e.g. a different day than current). If you just put 01:00 and no date, it won't run b/c 1am has already passed on the current day.

 

[websquad]

Sleep Mode ??

If this: C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0
get my Windows 7 machine to hibernate via a shortcut icon on my desktop,
which it does on both 32- and 64-bit machines, then what gets it to go into "sleep" mode?

 

[FliGi7]

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

 

[websquad]

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

 

[FliGi7]

Only thing I can think of is to create two batch files with the following (and make sure you run as admin for both when executing)...

Sleep.bat:

@echo off
powercfg -h off
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0
powercfg -h on


Hibernate.bat:

@echo off
powercfg -h on
rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

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

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/76344-task-scheduler-put-computer-into-standby-mode.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/23836-hibernate-shortcut-create.html

 

[kronckew]

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.

 

[Lordbob75]

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

 

[allend66]

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]

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?

 

[Lordbob75]

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?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/22867-windows-does-not-start-after-sleep.html

~Lordbob

 

[FliGi7]

You actually just turn off Hyrbid Sleep.

~Lordbob

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

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/22867-windows-does-not-start-after-sleep.html

~Lordbob

Unless I'm missing something here, I don't see how turning off Hybrid Sleep pertains to the question at hand or my response of disabling hibernation to enable the command to put the computer into sleep mode. Simply turning off Hybrid Sleep as you've posted will not put the computer into Sleep mode via the command previously posted. You still have to disable hibernation.

Am I missing something else?