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Question

Help. Acer keeps waking up

Mar 6, 2016 5:56PM PST

My Acer keeps waking up around 3 to 4 in the morning.
I've tried resetting the time for updates which helped for only one night.

I've followed a complicated maze of disabling programs which made the pc switch on at around 10pm but, after 3 days it brought me right back to square one.

Now I'm seeing on the device manager that most all my programs wake the pc up at around 4am.

I could also close the screen but that will erase all my tabs which
is why putting the pc on sleep mode is my only option.

I can barely sleep and I am completely stuck.
Please help me !!!

Regards,
A. J.

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Clarification Request
Details of Device manager
Mar 6, 2016 5:59PM PST

Please let me add that when searching the properties of programs found in the device manager,
I have no way of disabling the events that make the programs wake up the pc.

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Answer
I saw that too.
Mar 7, 2016 8:07AM PST

From memory I had to dive into power settings to turn off Windows 10's wake up to check for updates. Let's see if I can find an article about it.

Skip down to WAKE TIMERS at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/stop-windows-computer-randomly-waking/

I found this to be my cause across a dozen laptops. The word is this is how Windows 10 updates can be checked even if the PC is shut down.

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Hope it helps
Mar 7, 2016 11:08AM PST

Let's hope this works, thankyou for the fast reply Happy

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No wake timer but found something interesting
Mar 7, 2016 12:28PM PST

I did not find any chapter called or related to wake timer but
my cmd finally accepted my command : powercfg -lastwake
This is what is said;
Wake history count -1
Wake history 0
Wake source count -1
Wake source 0
Type: fixed feature
POWER BUTTON