How to View Active Wake Timers in Windows 10
A wake timer is a timed event that wakes the PC from sleep and hibernate states at a specific time. For example, a task in Task Scheduler set with the "Wake the computer to run this task" check box checked.
Important wake timers are a new class of wake timer in Windows 10 that includes things like reboots after a Windows update that requires one. They supersede all other settings.
This tutorial will show you how to view a list of active wake timers set to wake the computer in Windows 10.
You must be signed in as an administrator to generate a list of active wake timers.
Contents
- Option One: View All Active Wake Timers in Elevated Command Prompt
- Option Two: View All Wake Timers in PowerShell
1 Open an elevated command prompt.
2 Copy and paste thepowercfg -waketimers
command into the elevated command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshots below)
1 Open PowerShell.
2 Copy and paste the command below into PowerShell, and press Enter. (see screenshots below)
Get-ScheduledTask | ? {$_.Settings.WakeToRun} | Out-GridView
That's it,
Shawn
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