You can use VBScript or Powershell to create a shutdown/sleep script to run
after the first tasks complete, using one bat script to run both operations
could be of some use aswell.

"John Wesley Asquith" wrote:

> I use Task Scheduler to run programs at various intervals that support
> an Internet web site. When the computer is idle I have it set to go to
> sleep after 5 minutes. I use the "Wake Up Computer" setting for the
> tasks in Task Scheduler so that it comes back to life when a task is
> ready to run.
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> This all works well and predictably EXCEPT for a couple of programs that
> run at different times. They wake up the computer allright but they
> each take about 2 minutes to complete and the computer goes back to
> sleep before they're done leaving files open and the task only partially
> completed. I've messed with every setting I can think of and have made
> no progress at all.
>
> I've tried the Vista sleep, hybrid sleep, and hibernation modes but they
> all result in the same thing...the computer just goes back to sleep too
> early while the task is still running.
>
> I need some way to make the PC stay awake until the scheduled task is
> complete. Anyone have ideas what to do???
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