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Due to this requirement being a little too prohibitive we disabled it and stopped working on it.

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inzombyac

That's unfortunate. Hopefully this will change in the future.  For now I'll need to keep WMC around in order to record.  

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Leave feedback with Microsoft that you would like these api's to be accessible without elevation.

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  • 8 months later...

I set it for 5 minutes prior to starting the recording, including padding. I did find other documentation about the windows api call that we're using requiring elevation, so based on that I can't really commit to spending much time on this because nobody is really going to want to run the server that way.

 

Do you recall where you saw that *WaitableTimer functions require elevation?

 

I cannot find anything to this effect in the Microsoft documentation. I did find, however, that you have to change "Allow Wake Timers" to "Enabled" (from the default "Important Wake Timers Only") before they work. See http://stackoverflow.com/a/3764944/332798 and https://www.howtogeek.com/122954/how-to-prevent-your-computer-from-waking-up-accidentally/

 

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nsmal24

@@tmm1, i can't seem to find it, but if you want to help, try downloading the binary of this app:

 

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/49798/Wake-the-PC-from-standby-or-hibernation

 

and using it to schedule a wake event. See if that works. Thanks !

 

I went ahead and tested this b/c the other guy never replied.  That program wakes my server every time!  I am certain that I did not run the executable elevated.  I also ensured that Windows UAC was on the default settings (to make sure it wasn't elevating automagically).  I did run powercfg /lastwake to confirm what woke the computer.  It was a timer set by the program above.

 

I am ready to be done with WMC as my DVR so this is very exciting news!

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nsmal24

This will be coming to the Windows Server two releases from now:

 

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Enjoy.

 

Awesome.  I look forward to giving it a try again!  Thank you.

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