Force System Standby

I have been trying to get my system to go into standby after X hours. Basically I am looking to force into standby regardless of what is running. I am trying to this on my nc8430 that I have listed in my sig below.

It may not be going into standby because I have have programs actually running (MMORPG running in the background). This might be the issue.

Is there a fix I can do in windows first, like disabling items in the device manager or are there any programs out there that will force this to happen as a trigger? I just dont want my PC to run 24/7 but shut down after say 4 hours in the middle of the night

Thanks
Grazzt

 

Standby? How about hibernate?


Open notepad, type in
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState

Save it as something like,

Hibernate.cmd

Store it somewhere. Now right click COMPUTER, choose MANAGE, go to TASK SCHEDULER

Click CREAT A TASK in the right hand column and set up the script you created above to run at, say, 3 am.

That will put your computer into hibernation

 

Thanks for the fast reply. I do not use hibernate. Can this be set up in the same way as standby?

 

It's slower to wake up, but basically achieves the same result.

Hibernate takes every thing in ram and saves it to your harddrive, whereas standby is a low memory state. Therefore, standby wakes up more quickly than hibernate