Automatically booting up the PC in the mornings

I was wondering whether it was possible to have my PC start-up automatically at a certain time in the morning before I wake-up, launch a few applications like Outlook and a web browser and go to a certain website, say the weather?
I know this is possible with a Mac but is it possible with a PC and, if so, how is it done?
It would be nice to have my coffee machine timer coincide with the timing of the computer start-up so that all would be ready for me when I crawl out of bed.

Yes, but your Bios must support, automatic power-on. Then you would sched. your applications to launch, say 5 min after the PC startup time.

Just leave your machine on all the time

Kick significant other out of bed first and tell them to switch on the machine or get a trained hamster.

YEs this is possible like Darknight says go into your Bios, look for power management and you should have different options for booting for example boot from LAN, boot from keyboard etc. One of these options should be automatic boot and below it should be the time which you wish the computer to boot -this will be greyed out until you enable automatic boot. Once this is enabled you're half way there, now put shortcuts to the applications you want to load into your startup folder in program files. These programs will now automatically load.

judders, i can't find the startup folder in my program files... would it be called anything else?

What version of windows you using?

XP professional

its in your windows dir somewhere i think. if not you can get to it on the start menu i think.

C:\Documents and Settings\Craig Judson\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

or go start -> all programs -> double click start up

In there place any Shortcuts to applications you want to load

thanks!

I dont have a folder Craig Judson on my computer? Should I create one?

lol I just copied and pasted it , maybe yours will be called Gender confused?

Look here Mr Sequine pants, the only reason I have female set in my profile is that when I abuse people for being retarded they dont give me a hard time.

edit: oh, and I like to wear dresses.

Thanks for the help Will look into it and look forward to having my entire life automated. Hey, may mean more time for sleep and sex and drinking and other important things!

Having your PC boot up "all on its own" is hardly having your entire life automated now is it. You're just being silly.


Eh? I can see it all now

Bird: Fancy a shag
You: Ah, bollocks, no. Gotta go and press one button on the front of my PC. Shit.


I do that alot admittedly, downloading bestial animal porn and so forth, but it'll knacker your hard drives eventually really. Unless you have loads of posh hardware, but if you did, you would probably know how to get your PC to boot at a certain time.

That poodle porn is awsome

I thought it made you go blind, didn't know it could afect your hard drive.