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
    2020-04-04T13:36:04+00:00

    Can confirm that in order to do this, I have to provide some sort of credentialing that I do not have. So this is useless fix here that you have provided but thank you Nikhar for trying.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-16T08:38:06+00:00

    Win 10 updates have created sleep problems several times for me now. Their updates are giving my PC sleep apnea. And it tells me my current user account does not have permission to disable the task in task scheduler. Microsoft is crazy. I loved it when you could disable OS updates and I never had a problem with the system after doing it for years.

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  3. 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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  4. 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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