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Want to See a Magic Trick? You Can Turn on Your Computer From Across the House With Wake-on-LAN

Ever wish you could wake your computer out of sleep mode without trudging over to it and pressing the power button? Wake-on-LAN allows you to turn a computer on using its network connection, so you ...
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Using a Network Connection to Wake Up a Sleeping Computer

Most Windows Vista computers are configured to go into Sleep mode after a certain amount of idle time. Sleep mode is the new low-power state that Vista uses to replace the confusing Standby and ...