How2 resume scheduled script after Win8 awakens from sleep?

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How2 resume scheduled script after Win8 awakens from sleep?

Post by Monkster » Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:45 am

Hello,

I've get a simple script that I run every 12 minutes to check if I have a live Internet connection. I notice that if my Windows 8.0 Pro PC goes to sleep and misses it's next scheduled run, the script will not run again until the clock hits 12:03 again.

Is there a way to have Macro Scheduler resume the schedule upon reawakening from a 'Sleep?'

I wonder if I could somehow capture a Windows message, that I would think gets thrown by the OS, when it's going into Sleep state?

By the way, I've attached a screen capture of how I've got the schedule setup in hopes that maybe I've got something incorrectly set in there? (I can't seem to get the IMG tags to work but here's a link to it.)

http://bayimg.com/eAdDEaaFF

Any ideas appreciated! Thanks a lot!


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Post by Marcus Tettmar » Mon Dec 02, 2013 2:52 pm

It sounds like power saving is interrupting Macro Scheduler and other processes. They are therefore unable to run. Therefore there's not much can be done. Use a less "severe" power saving setting.
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