Top 15 WakeupOnStandBy Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Have you ever thought about how much energy your computers use up at night or when they're not in use? Have you ever wondered if it's possible to wake up your system from a sleep mode (or hibernation) using a resident program and not waste all that energy?

The answer is yes, it is possible! This simple utility will let you do it. Besides that it can also send your system back into a sleep mode (hibernate it, power it off, or log-off a user). Moreover, you can also use this utility as a scheduler to do your tasks without involving a sleep mode.

1. hashdeep

hashdeep Computes the MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool message digest for any number of files while optionally recursively digging through the directory structure. Can also match input files against lists of known hashes in a variety of formats.......

2. PC Sleep

PC Sleep Pc Sleep is a "Sleep" timer for your computer. Automated Shutdown, Restart, Log Off, Standby, and Hibernate Windows functions in a user friendly, menu-driven program. You can leave your computer and PC Sleep will safely perform the selected function in the entered amount of time with no effort on your......

3. vijazedan Timer

vijazedan Timer This is a simple app that creates a timer, and when time finishes, a sound is played. It has two modes, GUI mode for user interface and terminal/console mode to execute and use it from a terminal emulator/command prompt.Icons: icons8.com......

4. MessagePop

MessagePop MessagePop is a simple application designed to help you convey a message to the computer user. The program allows you to specify the message text and the other parameters from the command line.You can create personalized message windows by entering text for the title, message and button in the command......

5. PieTTY

PieTTY PieTTY is a free SSH client based on PuTTY and dedicated to multilingual (especially CJK) environments, accessibility, and simpler user interface. "Glass Window Mode" : Alpha-blending / HW-accelerated transparency & drop-shadow. Drag'n'drop scp [scp only in stable version]......

6. wakemeonlan

wakemeonlan Collect active network systems, like a network ascanner, in the local network and send WOL packets to wake up them using their MAC address.......

7. WuInstall

WuInstall Updating Windows systems is one of the routine tasks of an administrator, usually done automatically with or without WSUS. The problem with it is, as we all know, that users are bothered by the time-consuming process of requesting available updates and reboots - not only at Microsoft Patch Day. That......

8. Bootice

Bootice Bootice - utility to modify or backup/restore your MBR (Master Boot Record) or PBR (Partition Boot Record). With Bootice, you can easily change your MBR/PBR to another type. Supported boot records are: Grub4DOS, SysLinux, PLoP Boot Manager, MS NT52/60, .... For example, with this utility, you can install Grub4DOS to......

9. Zenity

Zenity Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.......

10. fciv

fciv The File Checksum Integrity Verifier (FCIV) is a command-prompt utility that computes and verifies cryptographic hash values of files. FCIV can compute MD5 or SHA-1 cryptographic hash values. These values can be displayed on the screen or saved in an XML file database for later use and verification.......

11. XMLStarlet

XMLStarlet XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for plain text files using UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc commands.......

12. Duplicate File Hard Linker

Duplicate File Hard Linker Small command line tool to reduce the size of duplicate files on one partition. Despite all other known tools the files in this implementation are not being listed, archived or removed but going to be hard linked using NTFS hard links. The tool runs in Windows NT 4.0 / 2000......

13. Batch MessageBox

Batch MessageBox This is a tiny hack to display message boxes from Windows batch files and command line programs. There are many like it but the developer didn't find any that was open source, non-copyleft and had no external dependencies (.NET Framework, GTK+, etc.). It works on Windows NT 4.0 through Windows......

14. RunWithParameters

RunWithParameters Tiny tool, which allows passing command-line parameters to any application from the Explorer context-menu. Comes with a database of parameters available in popular software. Remember previously used parameters in a pop-down history.......

15. Spotify_cmd

Spotify_cmd Spotify_cmd is a tool to control a running instance of Spotify under wine. It should work on Windows as well but have not been tested.......