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Use an old or current computer to wake you up to your favorite tunes using only free software. Note that this has only been tested on an XP machine.....
The first thing that you will need to do is go out on the internet and download the necessary supporting applications. You will need VLC Media Player...
This will be the backbone of the whole alarm clock system. We will be using auto hot key to set the volume, unmute the system, and start vlc media pl...
The next thing you want to do is to convert the ahk file that we just edited into an exe. Go into the folder that you installed auto hot key into (by...
This is the point that you will want to create a folder called Alarms under your my music directory and add a few files for testing with. Once you ha...
Next you will want to go into the control panel and find the icon that is labeled Scheduled Tasks. Right click it and select create shortcut. It wil...
Here's the part that you'll want to remember for each new alarm that you want to create. In the scheduled tasks folder there is a link that says Add ...
The next step asks you for a username and password, don't worry about this and just click next. The last step asks you if you would like to open the ...
The last thing to do is click ok to exit the advanced settings. Then I would recommend that you right click on the task that was just created and cli...
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