How to See Wake Source in Windows 10
This tutorial will show you how to see the wake source of what woke up your Windows 10 PC from a sleep or hibernate state.
See also: Modern standby wake sources - Windows 10 hardware dev
Contents
- Option One: To See Last Wake Source in Command Prompt
- Option Two: To See Wake Sources in Event Viewer
1 Open a command prompt.
2 Copy and paste thepowercfg lastwake
command into the command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
1 Open Event Viewer (eventvwr.msc).
2 In the left pane of Event Viewer, open on Windows Logs and System, right click or press and hold on System and click/tap on Filter Current Log. (see screenshot below)
3 Check Kernel-Power and Power-Troubleshooter in the Event sources menu, click/tap on an empty area in the "Filter Current Log" dialog, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshots below)
4 You can now click/tap on an event log in the middle pane of Event Viewer to see its wake source. (see screenshot below)
Kernel-Power logs with Event ID 507 can help reveal if a Modern Standby device may have waken from Connected Standby.
That's it,
Shawn
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