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
    2020-05-08T18:08:21+00:00

    I did something like that - I forget what it was that ran a similar report and now I forget what I changed - but that didn't work. And I didn't disable Orchestrator update altogether, just had it run during the day instead. And yes, I did disable Cortona, per another blog.

    I ran the sleep diagnostics report as you had suggested and the few days that it hibernated successfully, there were no reds. The issue that caused it to wake (Power Request Red) ~ after midnight was this:

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-09T16:10:01+00:00

    ADT_2020 didyou open up those highlighted items to see the details?

    Another useful command is powercfg /requests  That will tell you what is preventing sleep at the moment you run it. Run first thing when you find your computer unexpectedly awake.  I see the audio driver listed in your report. Perhaps that was preventing sleep?

    As an example, if I leave YouTube.TV active in a Chrome tab the computer will not sleep.

    powercfg /requests it will report this:

    EXECUTION:

    [PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume5\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

    Playing audio

    That's just one quick example. Regardless of the fact that Orchestrator is a maintenance process common to all Windows 10 installs waking up the system, the root cause of what is preventing sleep will vary considerably depending on each user's particular configuration, installed applications, and usage practices. It does take some effort to diagnose.

    Just curious - those of you who don't want your computer to wake up at night to run maintenance tasks - why bother leaving it on at the end of the day? Why not simply power off? What does leaving it on at night buy you if you're not letting Windows run disk optimization, defrag, updates, security scans, backups, etc. outside of working hours?

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-10T20:24:45+00:00

    For the purpose sleep and hibernation were invented - much faster resume than from full power off.

    I'm now forced to leave it powered off at the end of he day, ever since M$ broke it in 1903. Previously I used to leave it hibernated.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-05-11T13:03:54+00:00

    My new PC does boot up faster so when it kept waking up, I did start powering down every night. I hibernate because there are multiple excel files I am working on that I like to keep open so I remember, along with various folders that I always keep open to access for my projects. It's a minor inconvenience to start things up every morning otherwise. And yes, I did open up the messages, and it was those few red that I didn't understand enough to triage.

    For the record, I disabled the wake function on Orchestrator again, and kept Chrome closed, and everything stayed asleep for 3 days so far. So I think it is something in Chrome for sure; I think when I ran that powercfg prompt that you had mentioned above, Chrome popped up and after I started closing that at night, it did stay asleep (until Orchestrator wake was re-checked).

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