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    Hibernate mode and downloads

    I'm wanting to put my PC into hibernate once it's been sat idle for a period of time. However I'm wondering what constitutes as idle as there will sometimes be torrents running in the background and obviously I don't want the PC to hibernate before these are finished.

    Is there any way to shutdown the PC once the torrent ratio reaches 1:1 (ideally, so I'd imagine the torrent program shutting down via some internal setting, then the PC going into hibernate as it's now idle).

    Any ideas how this could be achieved? Any thoughts appreciated as I don't like thinking about how much money I'm throwing away in electricity bills

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    Re: Hibernate mode and downloads

    If you use a torrent client like utorrent (though im sure the others provide the same functionality) this will automatically shutdown/suspend/hibernate your PC once downloads complete.

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    Re: Hibernate mode and downloads

    utorrent has automatic shutdown/standby/reboot/hibernate/quit. Never used the shutdown but the quit works nicely.

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    Re: Hibernate mode and downloads

    Excellent. That's the torrent side of things sorted. Does anyone know what the effect would be of putting the windows hibernate setting on, say hibernate after 10 minutes idle while utorrent is running in the background (i.e. will having utorrent active constitute as the PC not being idle?).

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    Re: Hibernate mode and downloads

    There is a check box for "Prevent standby if there are active torrents" which I think will do what you want.
    Though I've never used the auto function for anything other than quit program, so you will have to try it.

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