Last Updated on December 26, 2022 by Mathew Diekhake
You can use an Allow Wake Timer to bring your computer out of its “Sleep” state on a scheduled time, so you don’t have to be around the computer to wake it up personally. This may be an essential feature to some people—perhaps you know someone needs to remote connect to your computer, but you won’t be around to let them in, so forth.
The following tutorial demonstrates how to add and remove the Allow Wake Timers to the Power Options menu when you’re using a version of the Windows 10 operating system.
An example of the Allow Wake Timers settings from the Power Options menu:
How to Add/Remove “Allow wake timers” in Power Options Using Command Prompt
Here is how you can add and remove the “Allow wake timers” settings in Power Options by using the command line:
1. Open the elevated Command Prompt window.
2. Type one of the following commands into the command line, depending on what you want to achieve, and then press the Enter key on your keyboard to execute it:
To Add Allow Wake Timers:
powercfg -attributes SUB_SLEEP BD3B718A-0680-4D9D-8AB2-E1D2B4AC806D -ATTRIB_HIDE
To Remove Allow Wake Timers:
powercfg -attributes SUB_SLEEP BD3B718A-0680-4D9D-8AB2-E1D2B4AC806D +ATTRIB_HIDE
You can now close the Command Prompt window.
That’s all.