I posted a new build of deSleeper to CodePlex last night. I was interested in learning a bit more about WPF so I used some of that time to touch up the UI and neaten things up under the covers a bit.
Also, feature wise, I've added a tab to help you configure the "target" machine's network card driver to accept wake up requests. You can do the same things through device manager and control panel, but this is a bit more convenient. One note though, to support Wake-on-Lan requests from all power states (such as hibernate and power off) you still need to make sure the BIOS is properly configured. The network card driver usually can't do anything more than make sure you can come out of a sleep state.
I still have a more plans for deSleeper, such as a distributed mesh system (this should allow you to take by hostname or IP, rather than MAC address), but I thought I'd mention 1E WakeUp I ran across recently that while it may cost a bit does appear to tackle the same issues as deSleeper. If your a network admin with lots of computers to configure, I won't blame you for choosing 1E over deSleeper. As long as you get your office setup to allow those hard working PCs have a good nights sleep, I'll be happy.
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