Strangely, my Win10 PC has started waking up in the middle of the night, it never used to do this.

 

Can't find out why this is. 

 

Update active hours are set to - day time.

 

Can't see any software that would wake my PC up at night, and turn on the screen - any ideas to fix this?


Thank you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Switch it off instead of letting it sleep.

mine sometimes don't want to wake up. Often I make the mistake of closing the cover of my laptop  causing it to go to sleep. I immediately open it, but I have to wait forever for it to wake up. 

I will follow this thread with interest

44 minutes ago, toast1 said:

Strangely, my Win10 PC has started waking up in the middle of the night, it never used to do this.

 

Can't find out why this is. 

 

 

Likely a program is triggering it to wake up.  You can check that using Command Prompt.  Easiest way to launch Command Prompt is:

 

Click on the Search bar on the bottom left of your screen and type:   cmd

 

You should see the Command Prompt app listed.  Right click the name and select "Run as administrator"

 

 

 

 

You should get a popup that asks "Do you want to allow this app to make changes to your device?"  Click Yes.

 

In the window that opens type:    powercfg/waketimers

 

You'll get a list of any programs with future events that will wake up the computer.  For example, I see only one program on my computer:

 

 

 

You can also use the Event Viewer to look at past events.  For that one, it's easiest to just point you to a site that explains how to do this....

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/122954/how-to-prevent-your-computer-from-waking-up-accidentally/

I have that problem when I leave Chrome opened on my desktop.  It could be some site I have browsed to with some active stuff that wakes up the PC.  If I minimize Chrome it seems to help.  There could be some other app you have running that is doing it.  I would first try minimize everything and see of that helps. After that I would try shutting things down.

Turn off the wake timers,

 

Control panel - power options - edit plan settings -change advanced power settings - sleep - allow wake timers

select never.

Thanks so much for the advice, changed power settings, will see 

 

 

Ran powercfg/waketimers

Does this mean anything?

 

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg/waketimers
Timer set by [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume5\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (SystemEventsBroker) expires at 07:26:29 on 28/12/2020.
  Reason: Windows will execute 'NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Backup Scan' scheduled task that requested waking the computer.

Timer set by [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume5\Program Files (x86)\IDriveWindows\id_service.exe (IDriveService) expires at 20:10:00 on 15/12/2020.

C:\Windows\system32>
 

toast1 - Yes, you have what looks like a program that wakes your computer to run, either a backup or a scan for a backup. Don't recognise the program but turning off the wake timers might work. Can be other reasons why it wakes the computer up.

 

There are three interesting things you can ask using cmd:

Find out who is hindering sleep
    powercfg -requests

Who last woke the computer:
    powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

Who prevented last sleep:
    powercfg -lastwake

 

Just looked, Firefox woke my computer last night due to some audio stream in use. Why? I know not.

 

 

Great info, thanks

Seems to have been fixed now, I ran a default reset in Power Settings, adjusted Sleep settings.

Perhaps it was my cloud backup, I'll check that if it comes back.

Thanks

 

12 hours ago, toast1 said:

Thanks so much for the advice, changed power settings, will see 

 

 

Ran powercfg/waketimers

Does this mean anything?

 

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg/waketimers
Timer set by [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume5\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (SystemEventsBroker) expires at 07:26:29 on 28/12/2020.
  Reason: Windows will execute 'NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Backup Scan' scheduled task that requested waking the computer.

Timer set by [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume5\Program Files (x86)\IDriveWindows\id_service.exe (IDriveService) expires at 20:10:00 on 15/12/2020.

C:\Windows\system32>
 

 

If your changes don't take, look at the backup software. 

 

That second one looks like it's iDrive cloud backup service.  Is that the service you are using?  If so, there's a setting in that software that you can enable/disable that will wake the computer up from sleep/hibernate.

 

https://www.idrive.com/help/Windows/general_settings

 

 

Thanks

On 12/15/2020 at 12:41 AM, sirineou said:

mine sometimes don't want to wake up. Often I make the mistake of closing the cover of my laptop  causing it to go to sleep. I immediately open it, but I have to wait forever for it to wake up. 

I will follow this thread with interest

That is often related to one or more imperfect device drivers.

I have an old ThinkPad. It wakes up from sleep but then the internal WiFi does not work. I couldn't get any newer drivers from Lenovo. Disabling and enabling the WiFi worked but it was a little annoying. At the end I bought a mini USB-WiFi adapter and use that. Now I have no problem anymore.

 

Summary: Check all your drivers and (try to) find out which is the one which creates problem.

Could Wake on LAN be enabled?  

4 hours ago, KhunHeineken said:

Could Wake on LAN be enabled?  

Check that under the Power Management tab in network adapters section of Device Manager. While in DM, check other devices and only allow keyboard & mouse to wake up computer. With those sometimes a loose cable or connection can activate the wake up.

Thanks, will investigate

I have a sleep problem in Win 10 Home on my laptop.  I suspect it has something to do with having a dual-boot Linux laptop (grub) but can't be bothered with investigating.  So now it's either shutdown or hibernate.

 

 

It seems to be a common problem, perhaps mine came from my backup, I did a default reset, that didn't work, will investigate.