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
    2019-12-19T21:25:43+00:00

    @BrianMinjaeKim

    BRAVO!! I have been looking for a few days but your recommendation was spot on. I actually used both methods. The second method allowed me to bypass the need for Admin rights and disabled the reboot condition as well. Thank you very much.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-12-16T23:16:12+00:00

    Try it yourself before providing a stock answer. You can't edit or delete this scheduled tasks under UpdateOrchestrator.  This task will continue to wake a laptop and millions of people and there's very little most people can do to stop it. The worst part is the laptop DOES NOT TURN OFF using sleep or shutdown rules in the POWER settings. I predict dead batteries, outraged consumers and even fires.

    Microsoft should just fix this asap. The problem began with Win10 v1903 and people in various forums have documented the proglemfor months.   Work-arounds that work require expertise beyond my level.

    There's no excuse for Windows to hard wire software that wakes computers all over the world and then leaves them ON.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-10-11T02:49:35+00:00

    Same thing has been happening here for weeks. My computer wakes itself randomly - sometimes during the night and sometimes during the day. All this is doing is burning electricity for no reason - costing me money and wasting resources. There is nothing that is so urgent that my computer needs to wake up a 2 o'clock in the morning and then sit there for hours upon hours while doing nothing other than burning through electricity. This is completely unacceptable and needs a fix now. No one should have to go through a ridiculously brittle setup (although I appreciate the creative efforts put into workarounds that others have posted here and in other threads) in order to make an operating system function in a reasonable manner. This should be classified as an immediate bug because no one in their right mind would ever design something so ludicrous.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-10-06T02:45:48+00:00

    Well unfortunately my computer is back to waking itself up again from Backup Scan. My computer did recently install KB4524147 which may have reset my "wake the computer up to perform this task".

    Please fix this Microsoft. I do not want my computer waking from sleep and remaining on all day and night.

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