Computer wakes from sleep automatically every night

Anonymous
2019-07-03T12:00:53+00:00

I put my computer to sleep before going to bed, but the signon screen is brightly lit every morning. Furthermore, when I launch Windows Update, it never seems to finish searching for new updates. In searching for a cause of the waking, I have come across the following potentially useful information. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

>powercfg -lastwake

Wake History Count - 1

Wake History [0]

  Wake Source Count - 1

  Wake Source [0]

    Type: Wake Timer

    Owner: [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (SystemEventsBroker)

    Owner Supplied Reason: Windows will execute 'NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Universal Orchestrator Start' scheduled task that requested waking the computer.

***Modified title from: windows 10 wakes from sleep EVERY night and the screen stays on until morning***

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Anonymous
2019-09-28T10:57:12+00:00

I think i found a fix that doesn't require downloading anything or complicated steps. 

It's worked for me so far.

1.  Go to: Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings (it may also be called Change plan settings)

     (you can alternatively just search for "Edit power plan" in the windows search bar)

  1. Click "change advanced power settings"

3. Go to "Sleep->Allow wake timers" and change the setting to Disable.

If this doesn't work, then using psexec like RichStevens2 suggested might be the way to go.

The directions i found on another forum was helpful:

"1. First go here to download PsTools. Extract it to a folder on your desktop. 

  1. Open Start and type cmd. Right-click the program and choose to run as administrator.
  2. Navigate to the folder where you extracted the tools by typing "cd C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Pstools", replace Username with your username and Pstools with the folder where you extracted the tools.
  3. When you have navigated to the correct folder, copy the following command without the quotes: "psexec.exe -i -s %windir%\system32\mmc.exe /s taskschd.msc".
  4. Open the command window and right click, choose paste. Press enter.
  5. Navigate to Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> UpdateOrchestrator.
  6. Right click the task called Reboot and click on Disable.
  7. The task should now be disabled"

Hopefully one of these two options works for ya'll

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-10-11T13:06:45+00:00

    I think I didn't see this workaround posted already, so here goes...

    Power and sleep settings, then Additional power settings, Change plan, Change advanced settings:

    Select Sleep>Allow wake timers>Disable.

    For a week now the computer stays asleep both on standby and in hybernation.

    Only works for you if you think you don't need wakeup timers - which I don't.

    Prior to this I tried removing all things from startup, also tried disabling "Allow scheduled maintenance to wake up at the scheduled time" but that didn't work.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-10-03T03:04:03+00:00

    You have to right click the Update Orchastrator Start in the upper pane and click Properties, then you can check the box. But as other users have pointed out, it asks for some extra permissions that are not available so this fix is unusable

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-07-25T16:45:40+00:00

    I just don't understand why Microsoft obviously doesn't care about this. This is not a new problem, people have been complaining about this for years, so this is not just windows 10.  

    Windows needs a global switch "don't wake up no matter what, until a power button is pressed (or any other configurable action like a key stroke or lid open) plus a list of programs/hardware/network  excluded from this where each can be "allowed/disallowed" .  But all of this has to be accessible from one easily to find menu "sleep & wake".  If something is not on the list, it can't wake the computer, period.  Simple as that for god's sake.

    I've been a linux/network admin for 15 years so I have enough of debugging, configuring, tracing processes, dumping network packets. At home I just want my laptop and pc go to sleep because I tell them so. 

    We should not have to look in different places only to learn that "disable wake timers " doesn't really do anything because if we run powercfg /waketimers stuff still shows up and wakes our computers.  We shouldn't need to click on each usb device in device manager to see what power options it has to find the one which can wake the computer. It should be other way - wake list so we see all in one place.

    This is ridiculous.

    I've done all of this stuff and yet I still have timers in powercfg and my computer wakes up all the time. I put it to sleep at night only to find it in the morning running again.

    Microsoft claims to be "green" and to care about the planet. If you sum up all the wasted electricity by all computers all over the planet which keep waking up at night it will say something else.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-09-28T14:06:10+00:00

    powercfg /lastwake

    Wake History Count - 1

    Wake History [0]

      Wake Source Count - 1

      Wake Source [0]

        Type: Wake Timer

        Owner: [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (SystemEventsBroker)

        Owner Supplied Reason: Systém Windows provede naplánovanou úlohu NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Universal Orchestrator Start, která vyžádala probuzení počítače.

    But there is no such thing as

    Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Universal Orchestrator Start

    It seems it's generated dynamicaly and deleted by it self.

    Please stop talking nonsense and tell Microsoft About this bug ASAP.

    Stop running my computer all night. I won't set sleep after x minutes. My computer, my rules. You have no right to run my computer all night. Is that clear?

    Do not force me to disable waking generaly by "change the setting 'Allow wake timers' to Disable"

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