I’m trying to get a Windows 10 Optiplex 7000 to go to sleep at 10pm every day. I installed nircmd and created a task in task scheduler to run a .bat file with the following command: nircmd.exe monitor async_off
Running this batch file manually (by double clicking it) works just fine. However, if I have the “Run whether user is logged on or not” option selected, and I try to run the task in task scheduler (by clicking the run button) it seems like nothing happens. The batch file is running; I can create files with the output of echo and whoami, but for some reason the nircmd command doesn’t seem to execute successfully. If I instead select “Run only when user is logged on” the task works.
The output of whoami is the same for both configurations, so I don’t think it’s a problem with user permissions. The user who’s logged in when the command needs to run doesn’t have permission to sleep the computer, so I don’t think I can just create the task as them and have it configured to only run when they’re logged in.
Does anyone have any ideas I can try? Perhaps a different command I can use to invoke S0 sleep?
(I’ve already tried psshutdown and rundll32.exe, and neither work because they only invoke S3 sleep which isn’t supported by the computer’s firmware, according to powercfg -a)
