Waking up a computer remotely

Q

I have a Dell Inspiron Desktop running Windows 8.1 on a network with a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop running Vista. Networking works great when both machines are awake, but often I am working on the Laptop and want to save a file to the Desktop but the desktop is not 'awake' so it doesn't shop up as on the network. Is there some way of remotely waking up the desktop from the laptop so I can save files to it. I almost never work the other way, that is, working on the desktop and saving to the laptop, so that's not as much of a problem. This is just a small home network and both machines are working of the same wireless router if that makes any difference.

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A

Right Click the networking icon in system tray>open network and sharing>change adapter settings>pick adapter>properties>power management. Check allow this adapter to wake the computer. You can enable it in powercfg (power configuration) by typing powercfg /DEVICEENABLEWAKE from an elevated command prompt. (you have to specify which device wifi/wired).

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