System waking from hibernate

I have used gpedit.msc to set Enable Windows Update Power Management to disabled but still I come back to my laptop after hibernating it and find it is awake and that powercfg -lastwake shows:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
Type: Wake Timer
Owner: [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (SystemEventsBroker)
Owner Supplied Reason: Windows will execute 'NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Universal Orchestrator Start' scheduled task that requested waking the computer.

How do I stop this ?

Dave

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PC waking up by itself from sleep

I don't believe this is quite the same scenario - AFAIK this case should be covered by the change I made using Group Editor.

David

Open Task Scheduler (taskschd.msc) and locate the
NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Universal Orchestrator Start task
Then disable it.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...c-d2a447c658d1

Oh Yucky! What a horrid set of hoops to jump through to turn of this intrusive nuisance.

to put the answer here in the thread:

Get psexec.exe, run:
cmd (as administrator)
get to the proper folder with psexec
psexec -s -i cmd.exe
in the new window
taskschd.msc

Then you can disable the UpdateOrchestrator task ...

Please could some of you MVPs here kick up a fuss about this (they might even listen to you).
David

Well blow me down, I came back to my lappie last night after hibernating it and "guess what" - yes there it was sat at the login screen again. Task scheduler shows me the that UpdateOrchestrator task has been re-enabled.

Thanks very much MS (NOT). When I put my computer into hibernate, I want it to STAY there, not get woken up at random times because some clever programmer thought it was a good idea.

D.

I've taken a sledge-hammer to this particular nut - I went into advanced power configuration and set both "Allow Wake Timers" to Disable - even though this stops my weekly automatic backup from running. Grrr, snarl!!!



I'm not marking this solved until MS push an update to turn this **** off!

D.

Hmmm "Task Scheduler is not available ..." Even though the service is running fine. I'll see if the change took and will work.

David

Well bless its cotton socks - you guessed it - I unticked "Wake the computer to run this task" box, and hibernated at the end of the day, and there it was sat at the login screen this morning.

Powercfg -last wake points to "Universal Orchestrator Start", so MS bless them have put a LOT of effort into making sure this **** is really hard to disable, which only annoys me even more! It's my computer and I decide when it's allowed to wake up overnight.

Dave