Computer wakes up from sleep windows 8

I am having an issue with my computer waking up from hibernation mode at every afternoon. I have tried the cmd prompt lastwake. It tells me nothing.

I have checked the task scheduler. There is nothing scheduled at that time. I have checked and disabled devices that can wake the computer. How do I find out exactly what is waking up the computer? This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :.

Cancel Submit. My case was this one, If you still need WOL magic packet feature, you can just disable Wake on Pattern Match on Advanced tab or Enable Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer on Power Management tab were solution. RifatFarazi Hi,. If the reply helped you, please remember to accept as answer. If no, please reply and tell us the current situation in order to provide further help.

I can run all those commands and I can see when my pc was awakened but that doesn't fix anything. My graphics card is fine. When I took all the apps out of the start window-- that is open when it auto-wakes-- it now wakes with start sidebar open instead, every time. My power settings are set to not allow wake timers, yet it wakes, even with my mouse turned off. What did you guys do in the recent upgrade to cause this because i did nothing and have done everything I can find to stop it and nothing works -- so it's a win 10 thing now?

Seemed to have started from irrelevant MS news, etc. I used to face the same problem. In my case it was the live tiles on the start menu. You can try removing all the live tiles and then check. It should solve the issue. Very helpful information. It helped me to find the culprit casusing my computer exceptional wake up.

Choose Power-Troubleshooter from the Event Sources drop-down menu and click OK to see all the times your computer woke up recently and what caused them. To stop a device from waking your Windows 10 computer up from sleep mode, open the Device Manager and double-click a device.

Any application can schedule a regular maintenance task to run automatically, as described by the following links. Being productive in the background — background tasks. MaintenanceTrigger Class. The first application to make use of the Regular Maintenance task scheduling feature is Windows Update.

Skip to main content. I rarely ever turn my desktop off. For starters, it takes a few minutes to boot up, which I hate, and secondly, putting the computer to sleep is perfectly adequate. You really only need to completely shut down your computer every once in a while.

So, in another effort to save time, I wanted to make my desktop automatically wake up from sleep mode. It's like an alarm clock for my computer. If I have to wake up at 8 o'clock to get some work done, then my computer should be ready to go at the same time. You can even make your computer wake up and play a video for you. This is all made possible by using the Task Scheduler. I'll be showing you how to set this up on Windows 8, but it should work for Windows 7 as well.