Hi,

"Wake on Keyboard" would be a BIOS function, see if it is available in
yours. Otherwise, no, as the operating system would need to be running in
order to respond to keyboard input.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]

"Bergmoser" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to assign a key or key combination to turn on the
> computer?
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> OS is Vista,Home-basic
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