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
    2019-10-06T02:45:48+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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  2. Anonymous
    2019-10-04T06:16:15+00:00

    I made an account here just to tell MS how frustrated I am that my PC woke me up 2 nights in a row.

    I essentially cannot use the sleep function on my PC anymore.

    The fixes suggested here are horrible in their lack of usability. They remind me of 1998.

    Give me back control of my PC. These updates can wait until the morning. I would appreciate an acknowledgment of this being escalated to a decision maker within Microsoft.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-10-04T01:05:31+00:00

    I was able to do all of it, except the part where I change permissions to read only. Windows is not allowing me to do that.

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  4. 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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