Desktop PC won't stay asleep

[Suradit69]

I installed Windows 10. All went well, but then when I wanted to put it to sleep for the night, the monitor and computer went to sleep for literally one second and immediately woke up again.

In Windows 7 I sometimes had that problem, but checked the task manager to see what was running. Usually it was uTorrent, so I would close the process for it or whatever else might be running and problem solved.

I checked the Task Manager this time and no apps (aka programs) were running but there were about 50 background processes listed, most of which were unrecognizable to me, some of which showed some slight activity ... obviously at that point and in the photo below, the computer was running. I Googled a few of them to see if any were inessential or could be ended, but no luck doing that and didn't want to end a process that was something vital.

Eventually the only was I could get the computer to stay asleep was to disconnect the ethernet cable from the modem/router ... something I don't want to do everyday.

Anyone else have this problem? Suggestions? Is this because when installing I agreed to MS and whoever to check my location etc? Chrome appeared a number of times as a background process??

[WhizBang]

I just turn my computer OFF.

[pbay]

It is probably because Windows 10 is like Android always running something so could be waking your computer up. I just went to the settings and turned everthing I did not need off and computer sleeps, no problem. Of course if you do that then Cortana will not work amongst other things, depends what you need, As stated above, you could just turn the computer off.

Edited August 1, 2015 by pbay

[Suradit69]

I just turn my computer OFF.

I used to do that, but was convinced by others that the daily off and on was harder on a computer than leaving it on in sleep mode. On previous computers if a major problem arose, it almost always happened on start up.

[Suradit69]

It is probably because Windows 10 is like Android always running something so could be waking your computer up. I just went to the settings and turned everthing I did not need off and computer sleeps, no problem. Of course if you do that then Cortana will not work amongst other things, depends what you need, As stated above, you could just turn the computer off.

They do offer the sleep option and also have settings for having it sleep/turning off the monitor after x minutes of inactivity, so I assumed (probably foolishly) that those were viable possibilities.

No one else with Windows 10 had a problem with this?

[wpcoe]

My curiosity is about Cortana. Is she well behaved enough yet to let the computer sleep? Does she listen in the background, even during sleep, for a request and might that bring the computer out of sleep?

[Suradit69]

I seem to have found the solution. I'm pretty sure I had to do the same thing with Windows 7. The first option preventing the mouse from (accidentally ?) waking the computer. The second option did the trick for me. After doing what was described at this website, I put the computer to sleep and it stayed asleep.

web link: http://wind8apps.com/windows-8-windows-10-wakes-sleep-fix/

Edited August 1, 2015 by Suradit69

[Suradit69]

My curiosity is about Cortana. Is she well behaved enough yet to let the computer sleep? Does she listen in the background, even during sleep, for a request and might that bring the computer out of sleep?

Earlier on in my attempts to get my computer to stay asleep I turned off Cortana and I went to the privacy setting to turn off permission for MS to collect information. Neither of those helped, but the solution in my post above did work.

[NeverSure]

Good for you. I was just going to ask if there was any chance you'd bumped your mouse or keyboard but you figured it out.

Cheers.

[cornishcarlos]

Did you spill coffee on it ?

[Suradit69]

Good for you. I was just going to ask if there was any chance you'd bumped your mouse or keyboard but you figured it out.

Cheers.

Did you spill coffee on it ?

I first turned off the mouse's ability to wake up the computer, but that didn't solve the problem.

Then I turned off the same thing under "network adapters" (whatever that may be ??) and now the computer and I sleep throughout the night undisturbed.

Incidentally my subscribed Kaspersky's Internet Security app went missing in action. No help from their website and Googling the problem produced nothing other than the advice to dump Kaspersky and activate MS Defender ... so I did.

[Brit_Doggie]

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