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I don't want task scheduler or whatever to wake the computer, but when I open the laptop back up and the machine wakes I'd like that to be the trigger that task scheduler or something uses to run an app.

Adam
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You can tick the “Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed” checkbox on the Settings tab for the task. That's for tasks at least that are scheduled regularly and fail to start due to sleep/hibernate/shutdown.

There doesn't seem to be a trigger "On waking from sleep", but you can probably use the “On Event” trigger. The interesting events seem to be from “Kernel-Power” and “Power-Troubleshooter”. System sleep generates an event from Kernel-Power with event ID 42. Wakeup is an event from Power-Troubleshooter with event ID 1.

Joey
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The event-based solution suggested by Johannes worked well for me. I wanted a certain text file (my to do list) to open in Notepad every time I un-hibernated my computer (Windows 7). I set up a scheduled task to run with this event as a trigger:

  • Log: System
  • Source:Power-Troubleshooter
  • Event ID: 1

This is working well for me.

Rangi Robinson
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Event 107 when resumed from sleep, and 42 from entering to sleep. I just try event 107 to trigger a program when resume from sleep, and it worked

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HelloWindowsPhone
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There is a simpler method: Triggers > New > On workstation unlock > Any user. When putting the computer to sleep, you're actually (also) locking the machine, and on waking up you will see 'Locked' above the password field, assuming you're using a password.

Frank Conijn - Support Ukraine
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Below is an AutoHotkey solution based on a similar question

Save the (one line) script below with file ending .ahk:

Send {Volume_Down 100} ; Turns the volume DOWN 100 intervals

To run it on login or when the computer wakes, there is a AutoHotkey script that attempts to solve this here, or you can run the script using Task Scheduler.

More information can be found here (control volume) and here (for using AutoHotkey).

Stenemo
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I use the task scheduler with AutoHotKey script to relaunch TT RGB Plus from sleep, because the program doesn't always work from sleep. Kind of ridiculous I have to do it this way but it works.

Sleep, 3000
Process, Close, TT RGB Plus.exe
Sleep, 2000
Run C:\Program Files\Tt\TT RGB Plus\TTRGBPlusGUI.exe
Sleep, 15000
Process, Close, TT RGB Plus.exe

My computer never goes to a lock screen so I use the event mentioned above in task scheduler and it works.

Log: System
Source:Power-Troubleshooter
Event ID: 1

The you have it "start a program" and launch the script.

Greenonline
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Jason
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