Windows 10: Windows 10 having wake times off still wakes up with Wake Timers

Hello team,


I set Wake Timers off and expected to have my PC to sleep normally without any wake up.


However, wake up persist as I can't even put it to sleep, thus shut down is needed.


What have I tried:

- reset power plans and turned off wake timers again - Windows still wakes up right after the Sleep command;

- troubleshooting Power Settings - sadly, most pointless thing I've ever done;

- checking if all drivers are up to date, just in case;

- checking for scheduled tasks that wake up the PC - none existing;

- checking if any device wakes up the PC - of course, mouse and keyboard, none other;

- WiFi, Ethernet, Bluetooth adapters not allowed to wake the PC;

- checking stats and last wakes with powercfg, cmd - wake timers existing, different ones.

- checking Event Logs for Wake Source - Wake Source is pointed as... Unknown ?? How does that even make sense is beyond my mind an Unknown process or device not allowing the System to sleep, alienistic.


So, last time I had a [PROCESS] timer \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost . Before it was Audio Stream. Or Legacy Kernel Caller.


When I choose No Wake Timers allowed, I expect that no timers are allowed and that's it. Nothing else, no discussion about it, no reserves, no excludes.

Please advice on this one as to how to proceed even if I have to... code the heck out of it on any level.

Please skip any advice which is already included in my comment above - you will be wasting our time, that cost us.


Thank you.

:)

 

Windows wakes up with Wake Timers set to off

Dear Geethu! Really thanks for such fast reply. But!

In other words - you don't know how to get rid of wake events! Did you underastand my question? How exactly your solution is helping in getting rid of wake events?

I do not want to troubleshoot power as I said before, I want Windows not to wake up no matter what is set in Allow Wake Timers setting. I want to turn off Wake Timers for real, once and for all, and forget about them for the rest of my life.

And the question (after applying your solution) still remains: why PC is waking up if Wake Timers are disabled?

Of course your solution is not working.

 

Wake timers

Hey all, i was wondering about the wake timers in windows... my pc has been waking up in the middle of the night because of wake timers, and while i know how to disable them, i was wondering if there could be any adverse effects of doing this? The timers
seem to be set by windows itself for maintenance stuff. Im just worried that disabling them could keep my system from updating properly or doing its required maintenance. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

How to stop wake timers

That didn't work. I tried what you suggested as well as many other things before posting my question and that's why you can see my frustration and anger in my post. If you search online, you will find thousands of frustrated people writing posts stating
that those steps didn't work for them either.

Here is what I have tried so far:

I disabled wake timers in all power profiles on my system.

I disabled the Reboot task in Task Scheduler

Running Get-ScheduledTask | where {$_.settings.waketorun} in PowerShell returns nothing

Running powercfg -devicequery wake_armed in PowerShell returns NONE

Running powercfg -waketimers returns "There are no active wake timers in the system."

I disabled "Enabling Windows Update Power Management..." in the Group Policy Editor

In Control Panel > Automatic Maintenance, I disabled "Allow scheduled maintenance to wake my computer..." and changed the time to 4:00pm just in case

And, still, that doesn't prevent my computer from waking up in the middle of the night. This is infuriating. This should not be a hard thing to disable. It's MY computer, not Microsoft's, and I should determine if I want it to wake up or not.

So, do you have any other suggestions?