Windows 10: I am unable to schedule wake timers in windows 10 and windows 11

I am living the definition of insanity here:repetition with an expected different outcome. The Power Management boxes of many devices have been triggered on/off, used powercfg in many ways and have worked with power off state 4 only since my laptop supports only it. Hibernate away, sit and wait for the timer from the task scheduler and KM Wakeup do do another futile test. Wake Timers are enabled in the power plan. I have checked the advanced BIOS of this MSI Raider GE76, understanding nothing from its arcane brevity, and fiddled with something that might work. It hasn't and returned the

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How to stop wake timers

Hello,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

I will be glad to assist you with the issue you are experiencing with the computer. I understand the difficulty when things won’t work the way they should.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps you regarding the issue to resolve.

To see a list of wake timers set on your computer, you can run the following command.

Note: this command must be run as Administrator.

• Press Windows + X keys and select Command prompt (Admin)
• Type powercfg -waketimers and hit enter.

If a specific program is causing your computer to wake, you can uninstall it or adjust the scheduled task’s settings in the Windows task scheduler.

However, if you don’t want any programs waking your computer up automatically, you can disable wake timers entirely.

To do so,

• Press Start and Type Power Options and select it.
• Click the Change plan settings link in the Power Options window.

• In the next window, click Change advanced power settings.

• Expand the Sleep section, expand the Allow wake timers
  section, and ensure that wake timers are set to
  Disabled.

• Click OK and restart the machine. Check if the same issue persists.

Hope this information helps. Keep us posted to help you better.

 

Win 10 v1803 Fails To Wake Scheduled Jobs when Allow Wake Timers set to 'Important Wake Timers Only'

Next time the computer is manually woken from sleep the Task Scheduler reschedules jobs as if they had been run. Event code 153 'Missed Task Start Rejected'.

Setting 'Allow Wake Timers' in the Power Options to 'Enable' overcomes the problem, however it also allows other activities to wake the computer from sleep. v1709 considered a scheduled trigger as an 'Important Wake Timer'. A fix would be welcome.

 

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?