Questions tagged [alarm-clock]
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How to stop Windows Alarms (Clock) app from asking access permissions on startup without saying yes or signing in?
Sometime this year, the Windows Clock App that comes with Windows 10/11 asks for permissions every time on startup:
Let this app access your info? Windows Alarms needs your
permission to: Read your profile Create, read, update and delete…
Nagev
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MacOS X alarm clock with radio
How can I use my Macbook Air to wake me up in the morning using an Internet radio station of my choice? The solution should wake up the laptop from sleep and be reliable. Here's what I know:
Macs can be reliably woken up from suspend, by software,…
loevborg
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Using computer (VLC) as an alarm clock
I found a tutorial for using Task Scheduler to use VLC on my computer as an alarm clock. Essentially, it works as follows:
Computer boots automatically in the morning 5 minutes before alarm time
Use nircmd to set system volume to 50% (nircmd…
vaindil
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Set Windows 8.1 Alarms app to ring forever till the user stop it
When I set an alarm to ring at specific time on the Windows 8.1 Alarms application, it rings only 5 mins then stop ringing.
How could I set it to ring forever till I only stop it (Wake up)?
Omar
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How do you enable speaker output while headphones are on for SELECT programs?
For example, I like to game with headphones on, I listen to music with headphones on and more. I keep the headphones on for many reasons such as not disturbing the neighbors. I don't like to unplug them every time I'm done, that's too confusing and…
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Win 10: Set an alarm that will auto-dismiss after 60 seconds of alarm sounding
With Cortana, a user can set up an alarm. In an office environment the alarm sounds forever and disturbs colleagues.
Is there a way to set a default auto-dismiss time for any future alarm made with Cortana?
userJT
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Computer Alarm Software?
Does anyone know of a free (preferably open-source) program that can wake up the computer from sleep/hibernate and do something, like play an alarm sound?
(Yes, this is possible -- Windows's SetWaitableTimer function allows you to set a "resume on…
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Dismiss Windows alarm with key
I would like to be able to dismiss a Windows (11) alarm with a key or key combination. I tried Space and Esc but they didn't work unfortunately. I have MS PowerToys installed, so maybe this can be used to assign such a key (combo)?
Simon Ferndriger
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How to set the fixed volume for Alarms and clock independently of the general audio volume of PC?
I mean how to make the volume of Alarms & clock
unresponsive to the changes of the general audio volume level?
So that I can rise or decrease the sound volume at will, without changing the alarm one.
