Windows 10: Scheduled tasks locking my computer during use and waking my computer up while sleeping

I am using Windows 11. I will not accept any answer which tells me to go update mysterious drivers. My computer is waking up when it has been set to sleep at 1:15 pm every day. And then if I am using it, it is locking on a schedule that is not related to my power settings. I've had it lock while using a controller, using a mouse, and using a keyboard. I need to know what to look for in my scheduled tasks lists to understand why this has decided to start happening over the past couple of months. I've had Windows 11 installed for more than a year.

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Scheduled Tasks Not Waking Computer

Hi Michael,

Thank you for being part of Windows 10.

I appreciate you for providing details about the issue and your effort towards resolving it.

Try the following steps and check if it helps:

• To wake up your Windows computer from Sleep mode at a fixed time, type
  Task Scheduler in Search bar and hit Enter.
• In the right side, select Create Task. A new window will open. Here under the
  General tab, fill in the Name and Description. Also check,
  Run with highest privileges.
• Under the Triggers tab, click New. Another window will open. Select
  One time (or Daily if you want it repeated every day at a particular time). Set the Date and Time when you want your system to wake up from Sleep.
• Next under the Actions tab, you have to mention a task. Click
  New. You can run a simple task, like say, first launching & then closing the command prompt window. This thus will wake your system at the pre-set time to carry out the task.
• Select Action as : Start a program. To schedule a task that executes the command
  cmd.exe with command line arguments, copy-paste under Program/script

/c “exit”

6. Under Conditions tab, check on the Wake the computer to run this task check-box. Click
OK and Exit Task Scheduler. Click OK
and Exit Task Scheduler. Your computer will wake up from Sleep at the particular time.

Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

Scheduled Tasks Not Waking Computer

I posted this on the Surface 3 forum, but got nowhere. Maybe it isn't a Surface 3 specific problem...

On my Surface 3 tablet running Windows 10, tasks scheduled via the Task Scheduler are not waking Windows up. I started with a very simple task to open a command window at a specific time. If I click "Run" from within Task Scheduler, it works. If the tablet
is awake, it works. However, if I put the tablet to sleep, it does not work. I am not shutting down the system, nor is it hibernating. It is in sleep mode. As soon as I wake the tablet up, the missed task runs. I've tried every combination of settings
for the task, and it just won't run. This is on a Surface 3 tablet, which has a new sleep state called "InstantGo", and I suspect that this sleep mode just isn't compatible with the Task Scheduler, but I don't know.

I've got decades of experience with computers, but I hope I'm overlooking something simple. Has anyone out there run into this? I've tried all the obvious things.

 

Task Scheduler to wake up computer

Hello

I am running Windows 10 with an external backup system that is scheduled to start every morning at 1am however I want to put my computer to sleep when I leave work (for security reasons). When I do this my backup system no longer backs up so I need to schedule
a task to wake the computer up at 12.45am every day for 2 hours.

The 'create basic task wizard' is simple until it gets to the 'Start a Program' then I don't know what to select from the Browse box to program the computer to wake up out of sleep mode. Can anyone help?

Also further to this question - if the computer wakes up normally it requires a password. Will this effect the task as I won't be here to put in the password?

Thanks

Justin