How to set up your computer to turn on automatically according to a schedule

Welcome : Agree with the other poster, that is not

a good idea to do this. Try it at your own risk

if something goes wrong, you may have

to reset the computer to get it

back to normal Status

But if you want to try on : Here are the steps to follow..

   -- Actually there are two methods, that users can apply

1. Allow automatic turn on/off
2. Schedule Auto-Start with Task Scheduler

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Waking up a Windows computer, that was shutdown and not through

the BIOS can be done using. The task scheduler as follows.

Allow automatic turn on/off << This method is most advisable

• Open Power Options > Change when the computer sleeps
• Click "Change advanced power settings"
• Under Sleep > Allow wake-up timers set all to "Enable"

Schedule Auto-Start with Task Scheduler

• Run the Task Scheduler
• Click "Task Scheduler Library"
• Click "Create task"
• Enter name and description and tick "Run whether user is
• logged on or not" and also "Run with highest privileges"
• On the Triggers tab, click New
• Set the frequency and time for automatically turning on the computer, for example daily at 11 : 42 Am
• In the action tab, click New and type a name for the action
• In the Conditions tab, check "Wake the computer to run this task"
• Click OK and exit the Task Scheduler.

Disclaimer : The above methods, were copied and paste

from a Bing search results on : How to schedule

a computer to .. Restart automatically

You cannot as for it to do so the system would need to be on, and in any case its not a terribly good idea, far many reasons.

Use an external alarm/reminder of some type