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Computer won't wake up for scheduled task

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Recently I had to recreate a new user profile on my computer. Just got around to resetting the back-ups to the new profile user documents. I have scheduled my daily back-up to begin at midnight. My tasks are not running at midnight - they run in the morning when I wake my computer. I know there must be a power setting I am missing (because the backups at midnight used to work in my old profile - set up by my IT person). I have Windows XP and Acronis True Image 2009. Can anyone help?

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That version of ATI doesn not have a built in feature to wake computer to run a task--instead it runs the task at next startup (although you can click that setting off in the task set up).

Ways around this are to have windows scheduler run some batch file --windows scheduler tasks can be set to wake a pc, so the windows schedule task can wake after the time you want ati task to run, and then the ati task will run (it will be running at next startup).

In later versions, you can specify Wake computer to run the task.