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
    2020-05-30T14:26:46+00:00

    Hi @zeeohsix,

    It sounds like you have a different item waking up your system late at night! I don't have the waketimer you have on your system, while you do not have a UniversalOrchestratorStart task (I have yet another one scheduled for today at 10:31 am!).

    Your theory about "Backup Scan" continuing to reappear (that it may occur on reboot) is interesting; let me know if you find a correlation! I don't reboot my machine that often, so I don't think that's the reason they reappear - instead, I think they are created on-the-fly by some system service.

    As regards the StartMenuExperienceHost timer, all I can suggest is to look at schtasks to disable it. There are a number of pages describing that utility, but one that seems on point is here.

    Now, if I can just find what fills my TEMP directory with 0-length mat-debug-xxxxx.log logfiles, my transition from Win7 to Win10 would be complete ;-)

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-30T21:17:21+00:00

    Hi cniggeler,

    So if you do a 'powercfg /waketimers' command you don't see the 'StartMenuExperienceHost' item like I show above?  What build/version of Windows 10 are you running?  If it's older than mine (which is totally up to date, except for the newly released 2004 build) then that might explain the differences.

    I will look into the 'schtasks' command and see what it shows - thanks for the tip.  In the mean time, I started a new thread about my wake-up from Sleep Mode issue here since mine has this unique 3 hour wake-up repeating schedule - HERE.

    I didn't know I had to be a computer trouble-shooter and code tweaker to be able to use my Windows 10 computer like I wish to - LoL.  I never had issues like this with my Windows 7 machine.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-30T23:52:09+00:00

    Correct, it's not in my wake timers.

    Good luck - think it's the right idea to open a new thread to find others in the same situation!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-07-04T20:58:00+00:00

    I have not set up my PORTABLE Computer to turn itself on by itself at 1:30am as it did last night. This is very disturbing. It appeared to be loading EDGE with a new Version of Edge. I do not want my PC Portable  to  ever to turn itself on in the middle of the night. I knowingly NEVER set this mode up and frankly it stinks. My modem has been left on before and my portable has a battery so it apparently can be turned on by Microsoft which was this case. I do not know what to do as pages of instructions are strangely unfamiliar. Any ideas?

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