Schedule machine to wake up

Question

What\'s the best way to programmatically cause a Windows XP (or above) machine to wake up at a specific time. (Ideally a lot like how Media Center can start up automatically

Answer 1

Your best bet is using Wake on LAN capability. This will require another machine to send a packet of a special kind to wake your machine up.

This will not be helpful if your machine is not connected to the network or you for some reason don't wasnt to move this logic onto another machine. But it's useful for some configurations where you have multiple machines and want to wake them up programmatically.