Windows 10: PC randomly turns on from sleep - WakeOnLan

This has been happening for a couple years now. I have my PC hooked up to LAN, and it randomly turns on from sleep, sometimes it will stay in sleep for hours, and other times it turns on in middle of the night, sometimes right after I put the computer to sleep, and sometimes about 20 times within half an hour.

I know exactly why it's turning on, and that is the Wake on LAN setting, and it's a feature I use so I don't want to turn it off. My question is, what could possibly be sending my computer wake packets randomly throughout the day? While my PC was at my grandparents house, it didn't wake once on it's own, so it has to be something in my house, or possibly my router. It get's very annoying, especially at night, as the lights in my case are bright and wakes me up in the middle of the night.

It doesn't happen when I completely shutdown the computer, but I don't want to have to do that every night as it takes longer to turn on, sign in then relaunch all my applications. It has only ever turned itself on from complete shutdown once, which confused me, but it has never done it again since, so this seems to be the only fix I have right now. Can anyone help me out? Thanks

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Computer Randomly Turns on From Sleep

Hey guys, I have been trying to fix this on my own for over a week can't get it to stop. I think it's a software problem?

My problem: Computer will randomly turn on when in sleep mode it usually happens around 1-6am, but has happened during the day time. My computer is in the bed room so I can here it turn on.

Investigating: I have hurried and checked my computer right once it turned itself on and didn't see anything running in the background, no updates, no scanning etc...

Settings Changes: I have turned off auto updates of many things or switched them to only happen on Saturdays 6-10PM(didn't fix it)
I have gone through every single even scheduler(46) made sure none of them can wake computer from sleep mode.(didn't fix it)
I have scanned for virus ETC. Kaspersky/ Malwarebytes Pro(didn't fix it)
Checked MB bios and made sure all wake up settings are OFF(didn't fix it)

Conclusion: This is why I need your help as you can see I have tried many things but still cant fix it. THE ONE thing I can't stop is the stupid Skydrive I have even tried creating registry file to stop it. The only other thing I can think of is a electrical problem in the wall sending it a slight jolt or something? It is plugged in to a surge protector a Monster Flatscreen HTS 400, it also cleans the power... It says its grounded and protection is on...

Thanks for any help/suggestions! As you can tell I feel like I have tried everything I know... Also I just woke up and didn't get much sleep so if something didn't make sense that's why...

 

Computer Randomly Turns on From Sleep

My PSU is fairly new. Maybe 6 months old.

I don't turn it off because it takes less than 1.5sec. From sleep, takes over 35sec from turn on. I put my computer to sleep probably 4-7 times a day that way it's not on all the time.

No vibration, also my mouse is wireless I always turn it off.

 

Computer Randomly Turns on From Sleep

been dealing with this one myself actually, since i went 8.1

in a CMD prompt you can use
powercfg -lastwake

to find out the cause. for me it was windows 'scheduled maintenance' which can be disabled in the windows "action center"

default time is 2am.