Task Scheduler to wake from sleep

If you want to examine the data records for a given task, I suggest you
1 Select that TS task's Custom view on the left-hand side,
2 Click on Save all events in Custom view as ...
3 Export it as a csv file
4 Close Event viewer [I find this necessary to allow the csv to be opened]
5 Open the csv in Excel
6 Add a title in the top cell of column F, Description might be appropriate
7 Select all the top row cells & click on Sort & filter then Filter
8 Click on the dropdown arrow for column F & filter by the name of the task you want to investigate.
9 SaveAs xlsx because csv cannot save any column formatting, filters, ...

You should see, for each time the task runs, a sequence of column D EventIDs - 107, 129, 100, 200, 201, 102

And what you are looking for is an exception to that sequence i.e. a task that has not run correctly [as far as TS is concerned, it does not care what your task actually does].


Denis

Our posts crossed.
Please see my post #61.

Your diagrams are not those for your own task but for a task related to Windows update.
If that task time matches the unexpected wakeups overnight then that explains what is causing them. I doubt that they record enough data to explain why they went to sleep again after only a few seconds.
You can investigate that task in the output file I described in #61. Filter by Schedule Wake To Work
My own Schedule Wake To Work records contain nothing of any use whatsoever. Just a long list of EventID 140.
[S-1-5-18 is the System 'user']

Denis

The output csv file lists the name of the task for every occurrence so you can look down the list instead of separately selecting each record in Event viewer to read its General tab.

Denis

He is the author of that utility that you installed, presumably donkeys years ago.
He is in Vancouver and he overuses exclamation marks.
Software developed at www.dennisbabkin.com
WakeupOnStandBy



Denis

His FAQ page makes me think that utility is still installed
I'm experimenting with WakeupOnStandBy app. It works great, except that on my Windows XP Home machine, the PC goes back to sleep again after 2 minutes. Is there a change I can make to the code that will wake the PC up in such a way that it will remain awake?
I wanted to double-check my comment by looking up what your Sleep after setting is in Power options but cannot find it. I thought you had posted it some time ago.


Denis