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
    2020-01-16T16:28:32+00:00

    I edited Task Scheduler tasks under UpdateOrchestrator -- "wake" was turned back on by Windows a few days later. I tried other solutions that didn't work either. I have not tried changing the permissions on the file C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\Update Orchestrator\Backup Scan to Administrators ownership and READ only access (seemed a bit of overkill).

    Even though I run many tasks that used "wake" to run, the only thing that has stopped UpdateOrchestrator is turning off "wake" for everything in Power setttings:

    Power & sleep settings> Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Sleep (expand) > Allow wake timers (expand) > DISABLE

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-16T16:05:37+00:00

    If it's a new laptop you should return it to the seller. If the laptop was like this when you bought it, it's basically unusable and they should replace it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-11T23:17:29+00:00

    What updates do I have to check?

    Too late to save settings...

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-11T21:53:42+00:00

    Removing admin from update orchestrator would prevent it from ever running. Is this a good idea?

    Can you provide the command to undo this change if/when Microsoft fixes the problem?

    It is a good idea if you want to stop the computer from waking up. It means you will have to manually check for updates from time to time however.

    There is no need to revert this change, as major Windows updates will revert this change anyway, requiring you to reapply it - assuming Microsoft haven't fixed the problem first in the update. You can also use the "ICACLS name /save aclfile" command to store the DACLs for this file first. Use this file to revert the changes.

    If you are uncomfortable with this system modification then you shouldn't attempt it.

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