Windows 10: How to Find What's Waking My PC

Dear All,

My PC is often waking from Hibernate or sleep mode and I'm struggling to work out why. Is there a way of finding out what the cause is in event viewer?

Thanks,

Daniel

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My computer repeatedly turns on after I turn it off.

First, you need to see what is triggering the wake:

https://www.ghacks.net/2013/12/31/find-pc-wakes...

For stopping it, these steps should help:

https://www.howtogeek.com/122954/how-to-prevent...

 

Windows 10 auto-wake from svchost.exe

After having upgraded to Windows 10 last night (late, I know), my PC will now wake itself from sleep at random points throughout the night. I checked my power options and I do have wake timers set to "disabled". After running the "powercfg -devicequery wake_armed"
command in command prompt, it seems that svchost.exe, or the "SystemEventsBroker" is what is waking the PC via 'Maintenance Activator'. I don't remember enabling this, and I can't seem to find a way to disable it. My PC never did this before the upgrade. How
do I disable svchost.exe from waking the computer against my will?

 

Hello, there are many many threads on this topic, so it's worth reading some of them - it's been addressed many times, so maybe that's why you've not had an answer.

Try (should be fine for '10)
Wake Source - Read Event Viewer Log - Windows 7 Help Forums
Windows 8 Powercfg -Energy | Troubleshooing Sleep Problems

Some examples of 10s, perhaps 100s:

https://www.tenforums.com/general-dis...-solution.html
https://www.tenforums.com/general-dis...ake-empty.html
https://www.tenforums.com/general-dis...waking-up.html