I followed this guide, exactly like it tells, however, for some reason, when the computer tries to wake from Sleep / Hibernation it simply resets instead.
I am trying it on a Windows 10 system. Also worth noting that it resumes from Sleep / Hibernation with no issues if I manually resume it.
Here are the full steps I took to schedule it.
- Opened Task Scheduler > Create Task
- In the General tab, I named the task and set it to run whether the user is logged in or not. Also selected to run with highest privileges and selected to configure for Windows 10.
- In Triggers I selected daily, and set up the time I wanted it to wake up: 9am.
- In Actions I tried two things: a) to run cmd.exe with the arguments /c “exit”; and b) to run a batch script with the words “echo hello”, as suggested in some of the guides I found.
- In Conditions I unchecked everything, except “Wake computer to run this task”, as it seems detrimental for this to work.
- The Settings tab I left as default.
It simply didn’t work. When the computer starts to boot, right after the Windows 10 logo screen appears, it resets instead not being able to resume as it should in the hibernate and sleep modes.
Also, I unchecked in the Power Plan Settings the “fast startup” option, and made sure the allow wake timers was activated under the advanced settings of my selected power plan.
If I had to guess, since Windows still hasn’t completely booted, it couldn’t run the program and therefore crashes?? But I couldn’t figure out how to fix it anyway.
Need help to understand how to fix it, and if it’s a known issue.
