Why does waking a PC up with a timer act differently than with the power button?
- by Dan Rasmussen
I have a Windows 7 machine set up as a server. It has no monitor and is only accessed through remote desktop. I set up two scheduled tasks, one to put the computer to sleep at night and another to wake it up in the morning.
When it's woken up from sleep via a timer, it stays awake for only a couple minutes before going back to sleep. When woken up…