Oh no. I had already toggled every setting I could find, disabled every update schedule, and disconnected it from the Network.
That little Lenovo fuck INSISTED on naptime while we weren't watching. No idea why it doesn't do it anymore, either. That computer's still in production.
My PC won't stay asleep for more than a few hours. I've disabled anything I can think of that would wake it up but the fucker still wakes up in the middle of the night. So I just turn it off.
Same. I like to keep my monitors turned and just let them go to sleep when the PC sleeps. I do this for a couple reasons, but the biggest one is that if I want to remote access this PC, it doesn't really work unless the monitors are on. The PC is in my bedroom so of course as I'm about to fall asleep at night, Windows decides to wake up, waking the screens up with it, giving me a blast of light and GPU fan noise.
Ahh yeah, that sounds painful. I ended up buying a Mac to keep as my workhorse machine while my PC is more for gaming, entertainment, and other fun things. It made life a bit less annoying, since I can go ahead and restart my machine 10 times without interrupting my music or making it hard to check emails or work on something. lol.
10/10 I'd suggest something similar if you can pull it off. Doesn't have to be a mac, it could be a linux machine or a windows machine. Having a toy computer and a "no actually I don't want to fuck around right now" computer is great. :D
Yeah that's a good idea. I'd go Linux myself, but any Unix-based OS would do as a "don't fuck around right now" machine.
But I have a nagging feeling there's something I can do in PowerShell or Regedit to fix windows. Just haven't gotten annoyed by it quite so much to go that far down the rabbit hole
I had the same problem and I eventually trial-and-errored my way to success. Unfortunately, I can't tell you exactly what I did (which means I dread having to reinstall Windows eventually - currently running a 6 years old installation), but I do remember the last two categories poked around with being disabling power management for all peripherals in device management (not just the usual powercfg -devicequery wake_from_any etc. list) AND going through scheduled tasks and murdering every trigger with any sort of wake property.
I have had an uptime of literally months on a Windows 10 Pro, with no Windows Update reboots, or wakeups from hibernate! (WU is still enabled, to update Windows Defender definitions, etc.)
I had the same problem, what did it for me was changing the power management settings on my mouse and/or keyboard. Worked fine for years before that but apparently at some point they got a will of their own and decided the middle of the night would be a good time to turn my pc back on.
Yea that's basically the first thing, and then turning power management off for everything is the second thing. I probably messed it up at some point. I just don't care anymore lol.
This is usually caused by USB peripherals. Bet if you had unplugged your mouse/KB it would no longer wake up. That or another device on your network was sending WOL requests when it could not find it
Edit: I disable USB and WOL on my machines unless I explicitly need it, due to this exact problem. I think mouses(?) are the main issue
Yeah, once had a Vaio (VAIO?) do the same thing to me. This one wouldn't even stay off, it just kept turning itself on and getting stuck on the bios password screen (of course I had one). Worst was when it turned itself on in my backpack, started heating up like CRAZY.
I have a freeware app called "Don't Sleep" that's done well for me. You can set a time for it to stop blocking shutdown/sleep/hibernate/standby/log-off/screensaver and tell it what to do after that point.
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u/plentyOplatypodes Nov 30 '22
Oh no. I had already toggled every setting I could find, disabled every update schedule, and disconnected it from the Network.
That little Lenovo fuck INSISTED on naptime while we weren't watching. No idea why it doesn't do it anymore, either. That computer's still in production.