>I thought it was going to be an easy step to pass, but I see it is harder than it seemed the Stanby issues.
>What I was using now is 'Task Manager' to perform a dummy task at certain hour. As 'Task manager' can wake up the system without problems I thought VFP could do it in some way.
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Nope; VB maybe, or C; the APM interface is documented pretty well by Intel at http://www-ife.tu-graz.ac.at/intel/IAL/POWERMGM/APMOVR.HTM which links to an Acrobat file covering APM version 1.2 in detail.

>Thanks again,
>
>Javier.
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>>You can't; you need something external to your system to trigger the wakeup action, since entering the suspend state stops all program execution. If you're on a network, you might investigate Wake-On-LAN if your operating system, motherboard and NIC fully support ACPI and APM, otherwise, disable the standby mode within both the BIOS and in Control Panel.
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>>I'd strongly advise disabling suspend and virtually all standby options other than video-related options; if your CPU clock rate is dropped or the hard disk is spun down, all sorts of strange things can (and probably will) happen. The APM suspend/standby modes are really designed to deal with power management requirements for a laptop, where inactivity after a period of time is an indication to the system that it wants to save the current system state and minimize power consumption to maximize battery life.