Computer wakes from sleep automatically every night

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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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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)

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.

Open Start and type cmd. Right-click the program and choose to run as administrator.
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.
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".
Open the command window and right click, choose paste. Press enter.
Navigate to Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> UpdateOrchestrator.
Right click the task called Reboot and click on Disable.
The task should now be disabled"

Hopefully one of these two options works for ya'll

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2020-05-22T00:07:41+00:00

I found this thread, and have to say my frustration level is 10 on a scale of 10. I tried the: Power & sleep settings> Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Sleep (expand) > Allow wake timers (expand) > DISABLE ... "fix" and it does NOT work!

If it actually did disable ALL wake times then that would make way too much sense. Is it actually broken, or is Microsoft just trying to fool people in believing that they have control over their own computers.

I've also tried many of the other "fix" suggestions and none have worked so far. I must have spent dozens of hours searching the internet and trying to find a fix for this issue, and after reading 7 pages in this thread there still doesn't seem to be a permanent fix.

Come on Microsoft ... I don't think it's right to wake up people's computers when they have put them into Sleep Mode for a reason. Why are you trying to infuriate your customers? Please be better than this and let people have control on how their computer behaves in Sleep Mode.
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Anonymous

2020-05-22T02:03:22+00:00

You need to open and start the Command Prompt with "Run as "Administrator".
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Anonymous

2020-05-23T06:50:21+00:00
I wanted to add some information to this thread. Attached is a graph of a 12 hour window where a program was monitoring the power state of my computer (W/U indicates the times where it woke up by itself). This was with all sleep timers set to "Disabled" in "Power Options > Sleep > Allow wake timers". Note that the computer wakes up exactly 3 hours after it goes to sleep. It wakes up by itself, stays on for 45 minutes because that's my setting to sleep if there is no user activity, then wakes up again in 3 hours ... and it will repeat this cycle forever if I would let it.

So what program or process is causing this? If I do a DOS command of 'powercfg /waketimes' two things show up.
1. [PROCESS] StartMenuExperienceHost.exe
2. [SERVICE] svchost.exe (associated with 'UpdateOrchestrator' for Backup Scan)
Microsoft - please make ALL sleep times become disabled when someone sets "Allow wake times" to Disabled ... like it should be.
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Anonymous

2020-05-25T16:46:41+00:00
Hi @ZeeOhSix, your system's behavior is different from mine and some others on this page: in the problem I've encountered, the machine wakes up and is not able to go back to sleep. Thus I come into my home office, my screen is on, the fan is roaring, and my keyboard is hot :-(

I've had success with this setting for some time, and I was wondering if you would try it too and let me know. If usoft is going to force my machine awake, why not have it do that during normal business hours? It's not as if a Windows Update check will bring the machine to its knees!

I changed the "active hours" of my computer to the middle of the night so that if Windows decides to update my machine, it's doing it during the day when my machine is already on: Start button
- Settings button - Update & Security - Windows Update - Change active hours. I set mine from 5 pm to 9 am.
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