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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  3. Anonymous
    2019-09-11T14:03:24+00:00

    Hi, I am having the same problem and followed your instructions below. When I clink "OK" I get a popup box "Enter user account information for running this task" and a drop-down list of accounts.

    NO combination of account and password I enter works. I keep getting "Task scheduler cannot apply your changes. The user account is unknown, the password is incorrect, or the user does not have permission to modify the task."

    Hi,

    Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

    I appreciate your effort on this and thank you for providing the all information. I understand that the PC wakes up automatically when you put the computer to sleep mode.

    As per the description it could be that the task is set to wake up the computer when it gets triggered, we can change the settings from Task Scheduler and see if that resolves it.

    Please follow the steps mentioned below:

    1. Press Windows key + R, to open Run dialog box.
    2. Type taskschd.msc and click on OK.
    3. Now, expand Task Scheduler Library and navigate to Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator
    4. On the right pane double click on Universal Orchestrator Start and click Conditions tab.
    5. Clear the checkbox for Wake the computer to run this task.
    6. Click on OK.

    This should not wake the computer automatically after you put the computer to sleep.

    Let us know the results, we will certainly help you further.

    Regards,

    Nikhar Khare

    Microsoft Community - Moderator

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-09-14T05:18:55+00:00

    This waking in the middle of the night didn't happen until the latest major update that was pushed last week.

    Experiencing this same problem, the supplied answer was NOT HELPFUL IN THE LEAST since it will not allow changes to the Scheduled Task without authenticating with an unknown account

    Task scheduler cannot apply your changes. The user account is unknown, the password is incorrect, or the user does not have permission to modify the task.

    Why TF would you make these wake by default, the whole point of sleep mode is to stay asleep until a very specific event occurs to wake the machine. Checking for updates is NOT ONE. This is piss poor but standard for MS

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