On & Off automatically PC

I was wondering if that is a program or a way to program my PC to turn On and Off automatically at certain during the day.
I have a laptop and it overheat a little easily so i can’t leave it on for 24 hours a day. I want to leave it on so it can seed my torrent
Any advice would be appreciated
*edit* thanks for the help
Answer #1
Well if you’re running windows, you can set up a scheduled task to run a batch file at a certain time of day.
Within the batch file, you could put something like:
@ECHO OFF
shutdown -s -t 60
As for turning itself on, that depends on whether the BIOS supports it.
Answer #2
what i do with my backup server is have a task that is set to run at a specific time, with ‘wake the computer to run this task’ enabled, and another task that runs a batch file to hibernate the computer at a specific time
Answer #3
Well I m using window vista atm
if i used window hibernation i can set a schedule so that it enter hibernation and get out of it when ever i set it too ?
if so got a little tutorial ?
Answer #4
1. open up notepad
2. type in “echo wakeing up” in, and save it as wakeup.bat in somewhere conveniant
3. in a new file, type “shutdown /h /t 0” and save this as hiber.bat in the same directory as wakeup.bat
4. launch the task scheduler from contol panel -> administrative tools
5. click on task sheduler library in the left hand panel
6. right click in the top middle pane and click create new task
7. name it as ‘wakeup’
8. on the triggers tab, click new, select begin this task -> ‘on a shedule’ enter the date/time that you want the computer to wakeup 9. on the actions tab, click new, click browse and find the wakeup.bat file you made earlyer
10. on the conditions tab, select ‘wake the computer to run this task’
11. click ok
12. repeat steps 6-11, except name the task ‘hiber’, shedule it to run when you want it to hibernate, and select hiber.bat instead of wakeup.bat