toast1 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post treetops Posted December 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 14, 2020 Switch it off instead of letting it sleep. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirineou Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post asiacurious Posted December 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 14, 2020 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/ 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shdmn Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 (edited) 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. Edited December 14, 2020 by shdmn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post briley Posted December 14, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 14, 2020 Turn off the wake timers, Control panel - power options - edit plan settings -change advanced power settings - sleep - allow wake timers select never. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast1 Posted December 14, 2020 Author Share Posted December 14, 2020 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> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briley Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast1 Posted December 15, 2020 Author Share Posted December 15, 2020 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asiacurious Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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OneMoreFarang Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunHeineken Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Could Wake on LAN be enabled? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStar Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast1 Posted December 20, 2020 Author Share Posted December 20, 2020 (edited) Thanks, will investigate Edited December 20, 2020 by toast1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendejo Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast1 Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share Posted December 21, 2020 It seems to be a common problem, perhaps mine came from my backup, I did a default reset, that didn't work, will investigate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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