How to Find What's Waking My PC


  1. DanielDC88
    Posts : 35
    Windows 10 Enterprise
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    How to Find What's Waking My PC


    Dear All,

    My PC is often waking from Hibernate or sleep mode and I'm struggling to work out why. Is there a way of finding out what the cause is in event viewer?

    Thanks,

    Daniel
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  3. dalchina
    Posts : 42,983
    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
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    Hello, there are many many threads on this topic, so it's worth reading some of them - it's been addressed many times, so maybe that's why you've not had an answer.

    Try (should be fine for '10)
    Wake Source - Read Event Viewer Log - Windows 7 Help Forums
    Windows 8 Powercfg -Energy | Troubleshooing Sleep Problems

    Some examples of 10s, perhaps 100s:

    https://www.tenforums.com/general-dis...-solution.html
    https://www.tenforums.com/general-dis...ake-empty.html
    https://www.tenforums.com/general-dis...waking-up.html
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