Windows 10: Can't disable wake timer; "Allow this device..." greyed out

I used "powercfg -lastwake" to check what exactly woke up my PC just now, since I lightly touched my phone and it instantly woke it up. I was honestly shocked. (And last night, my mouse was doing the same; moving it even the slightest would wake the PC).

But when I went into Device Manager to check the Power Management tabs for both devices, the "Allow this device to wake the computer" option is greyed out. I can't enable/disable it. It's just greyed out.

Is there way to bruteforce and disable them through the registry? I've always hated wake timers with a passion and I've always disabled them since Vista, but Windows just never listens when "no means no", even if you disable them in the power settings and whatnot.

Thanks

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Windows 10 -- Cannot disable the mouse from waking computer from sleep

Hi,

Thank you for your interest in Windows 10.

I suggest you to follow the methods below and check if it helps:

Method 1

Follow the steps below to try to disable device to wake the computer:

• 
  Press Windows key + X.
  
• 
  Click on Command Prompt (Admin).
  
• 
  Type powercfg –devicedisablewake and press
  Enter.
  
• 
  Restart the computer and check if issue persists.
  

Method 2: Disable the Wake timers

Follow the steps below to Disable the Wake timers:

• 
  Press Windows key +X.
  
• 
  Click on Power Options.
  
• 
  Click on edit Plan Settings and click on
  Change advanced power settings.
  
• 
  Expand Sleep option and “Allow wake timers" and set this to
  disable.
  
• 
  Restart the computer and check if issue persists.
  

Hope this information is helpful. Please do let us know if you need further assistance, we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

Why does Power Options -> Sleep -> Allow wake Timers -> Disabled not work?

Hello Divya,

The "Allow this device to wake this computer" is already unchecked. Also Wake on Lan is disabled in the bios. I have basically done everything possible to prevent windows from coming out of sleep, and yet spotify wakes it.... using a wake timer!

When I terminate ALL spotify programs by running:

the waketimer disappears. If I than run:

powercfg -waketimers

It returns

There are no active wake timers in the system.

But as soon as I startup spotify

powercfg -waketimers

Returns:

Timer set by [PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Jeffrey\AppData\Roaming\Spotify\Spotify.exe expires at 10:01:27 on 25/09/2015.

Reason: generic

Timer set by [PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Users\Jeffrey\AppData\Roaming\Spotify\Spotify.exe expires at 09:44:01 on 25/09/2015.

Reason: generic

TeamViewer has been associated with waking the PC from sleep as well in the past

Link 1

Link 2

It is logical that a program can SET a waketimer. But HOW is it possible that windows actually runs it, and make the PC come out of sleep for it, when the settings tell Windows NOT TO (power option -> allow sleep timers -> Disable)

 

Why does Power Options -> Sleep -> Allow wake Timers -> Disabled not work?

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I appreciate your interest in Windows 10. We sincerely regret for the inconvenience caused.

• 
  How do you think that Spotify is causing this issue?
  

I suggest you to follow the below step and check if it helps

• Go to device manager.
• Click on network adapters.
• Right on the network adapters.
• Click on power management.
• Uncheck the option Allow this device to wake this computer.

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

Thank you.