Automatically Run a Program When Mac Wakes from Sleep

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I want to set a program to automatically run when the Mac wakes from sleep. Any idea how to do this?

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I haven't tried this yet, but:

SleepWatcher monitors sleep, wakeup and idleness of a Mac. It can be used to execute a Unix command when the Mac or the display of the Mac goes to sleep mode or wakes up or after a given time without user interaction. It also can send the Mac to sleep mode or retrieve the time since last user activity.

More, at MacOSXHints.com.

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Finding the cause why a laptop wakes itself from sleep

Is your network card allowed to wake the computer?

Open Device Manager
Open Network Adapters and navigate to your network card.
Right click on the network card and select properties.
Go to the Power Management tab and untick the option to prevent your network card from waking up Windows.

A few commands to see what the last wakeup events were, and which device caused it:

powercfg -lastwake
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

Also check in Control Panel:

Power Settings, Change Plan Settings, Change Advanced Power Settings

... walk the list there and see if anything looks promising.

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