Windows 10: a usb device keeps waking my pc up in the middle of the night

Wake History Count - 1 Wake History [0] Wake Source Count - 1 Wake Source [0] Type: Device Instance Path: USB\VID_320F&PID_502A\6&a806194&0&2 Friendly Name: Description: USB Composite Device Manufacturer: Standard USB Host Controlleri did powercfg -lastwake and this popped up. I have a lot of usb composite devices and I don't really know how to stop this from happening.

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PC wakes up in the middle of the night by StartMenuExperienceHost.exe

Hi everyone,

New windows installation, the PC keeps waking in the middle of the night. I have done all the steps needed like disabling wake up timers in power settings, disabling power management on all devices, etc and everything else that there is on the net.

powercfg /wake timers command outputs this:

Timer set by [PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy\StartMenuExperienceHost.exe expires at 04:00:00 on .

And i have found zero ways to disable it. There is in another post in this forum that mentions a registry edit on a CSEnable variable but this variable no longer exists on the latest version on windows.

So if anyone has any ideas about this it would be very helpful.

Thanks in advance

Fotis

 

Windows wakes up in the middle of the night

Since the Creators update my Windows PC wakes up in the middle of the night.

Before Creators update, I was able to keep my desktop asleep by disabling Wake Timers in Change advanced power settings -> Sleep, and by disabling Automatic Maintenance.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>powercfg /waketimers

Timer set by [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume6\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (SystemEventsBroker) expires at 14:54:06 on 2017-11-15.

Reason: Windows will execute 'NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Reboot' scheduled task that requested waking the computer.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

Why does UpdateOrchestrator set a wake timer when wake timers are disabled? How can I prevent my computer from waking me up in the middle of the night?

 

Windows 10 keeps waking up from sleep in the middle of the night!

I have tried all the suggestions listed above including hybrid sleep, awake timers, powercfg, checking the device manager for both keyboard and mouse to ensure that these devices do not switch the PC on from USB port. None of these have worked.



It maybe just peculiar to my system but it was the Microsoft keyboard and mouse centre (intellipoint as it used to be known) that was waking my system. Once I uninstalled Microsoft keyboard and mouse centre (MKC), it resolved the spontaneously waking from
sleep issue.



Uninstalling Microsoft keyboard and mouse centre (MKC) stopped the waking up form sleep but I lost shortcut keys. I have since installed the new version without problems so far Mouse and Keyboard Center download - Microsoft Support .
I hope someone finds this useful. My keyboard is an old (at least 10 years old) Microsoft USB office keyboard.