Sound sleepers this one is for you guys. Yeah that includes me too. Normal alarm clocks & even my mobile are incapable of waking me up. So I decided to use my pc as my alarm, by playing back random titles from Nickelback & Greenday at a decent high volume. Windows task scheduler in conjunction with an audio playback application did the trick. In my case I went for winamp.

Here’s how you go about creating the loudest and most effective alarm clock in your house.First create a playlist of your favorite songs using winamp, wmp or any other player of your choice. Export your playlist as an M3U file, as it is most accepted by most players.
Next for the trigger go to ‘Start| Programs |Accessories| System tools| Scheduled tasks’.
Create a new task and choose the program as winamp and click next. Enter an indicative name for this task and choose daily under ‘perform this task’ section. Now set the time and start date.

Right click on this newly created task and check ‘run only if logged in’ checkbox. Now click properties and append the path to the playlist you created in the ‘Run’ textbox. It should look like “C:Program FilesWinampwinamp.exe” D:Playlistsalarm.m3u.
That’s it. Now all that is left is to remember to turn your pc on and logged in before you go to sleep.

If you are a win Vista user go to ‘Start| All Programs |Accessories| System tools| Task Scheduler’. Click ‘Create Basic Task’ in the actions panel and follow the above steps. Choosing ‘Create Task’ gives you more control over the settings ‘such as ‘wake the computer to run this task’ but the former way should suffice.