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
    2020-05-08T16:42:31+00:00

    When I run the "powercfg /systemsleepdiagnostics" command it says "This command requires administrator privileges and must be executed from an elevated command prompt."

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-08T16:18:41+00:00

    Although disabling Orchestrator and various other steps such as disabling wake timers allows the system to stay in sleep mode, it will also prevent needed routine maintenance from occurring during off hours as well as prevent user configured off-hours tasks such  backups. Of course you can run those maintenance tasks during the day, but my personal preference is to run maintenance tasks during off hours.  Not everyone will agree, but I recommend the following as a more selective and effective diagnostic process to isolate the root cause of the problem.

    Note that the problem is not that Orchestrator is waking the system. It is supposed to do that. The problem is that once the task is complete, something is preventing sleep.

    The following diagnostic steps will allow you to determine what that is. Run this first thing when you find your computer is awake rather than in sleep mode as expected.

    1. Open a Command Prompt with administrative privileges
    2. Run    powercfg /systemsleepdiagnostics
    3. Open the resulting html report    C:\Windows\System32\system-sleep-diagnostics.html

    This report covers 3 days and includes info on power requests, sleep states changes, and sleep intervals. 

    The Power requests sections lists what processes woke the system and for how long. It's color coded green/yellow/red.

    Generally you can ignore the green/yellow as they are normal tasks that take minimal time. 

    Select Power Requestsand select anything that is Red. There are no generalizations as to what you may find and what actions to take since it is specific to what is installed/configured on your system. In my case it was MiniTool ShadowMaker which I had installed and tested, but decided not to use. There was probably some configuration change I could of done, but I simply uninstalled it.

    Since that time (about 3 months ago) I have never found my system awake in the morning. However, Backups run at night as scheduled, Windows Automatic Maintenance runs nightly as scheduled and the computer goes back to sleep as expected.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-08T12:47:39+00:00

    In order to change Orchestrator with administrator rights, follow the directions that were posted back in Sept 28, 2019 by BrianMinjaeKim

    That is labeled as the Right Answer. Follow it exactly as stated. It works and allows for you to bypass. Microsoft does, however, reset the wake option after a certain period. I have tried all these solutions, and others:

    Disabled all wake timers

    Stopped all devices from waking PC (mouse, external monitors, network card, etc)

    Turned off Lenovo Intelligent Power and Smart standby settings

    One thing i was reluctant to try on this list was 9 and 10:

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/computer-turns-on-by-itself-in-hibernation-windows/8bc2d736-4d27-4e6f-9990-242836d8bfbd

    I had successfully kept my Lenovo in hibernation mode for the last 2 or 3 days. I forget what I googled for running a test in CMD to notice that Chrome was the culprit, so I closed Chrome every night (easy as it remembers tabs when you reopen in AM). It stayed asleep until this morning, and guess what, Orchestrator wake option was checked again. So yes, I think Microsoft overrides what you change and it will happen regardless of what you do. 

    I have wasted a ton of time researching this and reading forums and trying to be a PC programmer as a side gig.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-16T08:45:33+00:00

    This solution DOES NOT WORK! There is no Universal Orchestrator Startoption on the right pane. No doubt the last system update removed it so I have to power down my PC at night. Microsoft is a right pane!!!

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