How to Set a Wake Up Time on a Computer. In any business, time is money, and any time that can be saved by skipping menial tasks is welcomed by business owners.

Make your Mac work on your schedule. You can set wake and sleep settings on Mac or start up, shut down, or restart automatically at the same time each day.

If you have a Windows computer that will be left on overnight, you could use Task Scheduler to send the Wake-on-LAN packets, and your other computers will all turn on when you want them running.

Wake-on-LAN technology hasn't actually changed all that much in the three years since we first tackled it. It's still a bit different on every system: where the setting is in your BIOS, how your ...