PC waking up by itself from sleep

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  1. Posts : 4,173
    Windows 11 Pro, 22H2
       #11

    Consider this possibility for people who want to perform tasks such as backups at a specific time:

    If you are setting your BIOS to allow wake up events by the BIOS (not the operating system), then there is often an accompanying option to wake the system at a specific time. So assume that you plan to have a backup run at 2:00 AM. You might consider waking the system at something like 1:55 AM.

    Note that this is a BIOS dependant feature. Not all systems will have such options. For those systems that have this option, the name may vary. It may be something like wake by RTC (Real Time Clock). Also, whether you can wake the system every day at a certain time, or specific days of the week may be options available to you.
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  2. Posts : 14
    Windows 10
       #12

    Arakon said:

    Possible solution found:
    PowerRun v1.3 (Run with highest privileges)
    This allows you to run taskschd.msc as "system" user, which WILL allow you to uncheck the "Wake from sleep to execute this task" option.
    So hopefully this will disable this nightly terror without loss of functionality.
    Unfortunately no. Same campabilities you can get with PStools. Any changes reset every time.
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  3. Posts : 8
    Win 10 Pro
       #13

    Yep, had to notice that too. WTF Microsoft. Worst part is, this worked fine before the 1903 update for me.
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  4. Posts : 858
    Windows 10 Home 64-bit
       #14

    Me too. I hope advice here will cure PC insomnia.
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  5. bru
    Posts : 384
    Windows 10 Home
       #15

    I too am having this issue, but interestingly not on every computer. At least one does not show the OrchestratorIdle task.

    hsehestedt is trying to help me with PSTools to actually disable the task but I am not very confident in doing that so for now have disabled Wake Timers in Power Options. Assuming that does work I do wonder what I lose that used to also need to be woken?

    I wish Microsoft would fix this as it clearly is an issue introduced with 1903 and I am sure many are having the same issue.
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  6. bru
    Posts : 384
    Windows 10 Home
       #16

    Disabling Wake Timers didn't work. Computer is back awake 15 minutes later. I hate Windows.
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  7. Posts : 8
    Win 10 Pro
       #17

    Disabling wake timers did the trick for me, but I lose the ability for the PC to automatically wake at night, make backups, and shut back down.
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  8. bru
    Posts : 384
    Windows 10 Home
       #18

    Arakon said:
    Disabling wake timers did the trick for me, but I lose the ability for the PC to automatically wake at night, make backups, and shut back down.
    I'm still investigating whether disabling wake timers will work. I have three with the issue. One that has had a similar issue before 1903 was awake but when I check the log it didn't show the OrchestratorIdle task. So far it has stayed asleep for an hour or so. Computer B has been asleep about the same. I can't pronounce it resolved (not fixed, just a workaround) just yet but thanks for pointing me in this direction.
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  9. bru
    Posts : 384
    Windows 10 Home
       #19

    By disabling wake timers my computer will stay asleep IF I put it there. Because it won't do it on its own. Why? Because of Orchestrator. I hate MS.

    EXECUTION:[SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (UsoSvc)Universal Orchestrator
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  10. Posts : 1
    Win10
       #20

    Same here, nothing helps. Any changes to the 2 UpdateOrchestrator tasks in the scheduler get reset after a couple of hours, even if I delete them they just reappear.

    My last ditch attempt is to run an instance of explorer.exe as admin, going into C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator, taking ownership of the 2 files, removing all permissions to them for System, giving myself all permissions on them, and editing the files to set the "Wake computer" option to false.

    Then reboot.

    PC has been asleep for more than an hour and hasn't woken up yet, when it would always do so every hour. Will wait for tomorrow to confirm...

    I do have Windows Update set via GPO to only notify of updates, I wonder if the issue could come from that. If nothing works I might try to reset this to default temporarily.

    - - - Updated - - -

    OK, neither the file trick (did do something, both tasks were greyed out in the scheduler so nothing could be changed, but the "wake if needed" tick was back in) nor resetting default behavior for updates did anything...
    Last edited by Kilrah; 24 Jun 2019 at 00:45.
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