Windows 10: I disabled wake timers. Using high performance mode. What else can I do to keep this darn thing in hibernate/Sleep until I press the power on button? :mad:
…without shutting it off entirely (figured I’d better add that)
Also when it wakes up, it wants my MS password even though I specifically set it in NetPlwiz to not require one. How do I make it go directly to my desktop when waking from hibernate?
I don’t know about Win 10. I can go to control panel’s power options, click on “require password on wakeup” and disable it. Reset your instructions about when to sleep, etc. I have to set mine on “never”, reboot, and then come back and re-set to preferred settings.
As always, it might require reboot to lock in your new commands.
What is it that’s causing the undesired waking? You disabled timers, is it now waking from mouse/keyboard input, which you don’t want?
Check your wake-on-lan settings as well.
This is what I’ve found on various Win10 machines, the wake on LAN (local area network) activity setting keeps getting reset.
Click start, type Device, click Device Manager. Then click on Network Adapters. For each item listed right-click on it and pick Properties, then click on Power Management. Uncheck “Allow this device to wake the computer.”
ControlZ: All that’s listed is 2 Bluetooth devices and Network Adapter which is already unchecked to wake computer. So that’s not it.
I even took everything off the Task Scheduler, not sure if that’s a great idea or not. The BT devices do not have a power management option in properties.
Last night when I set it to hybrid sleep, it woke up like 1 minute later, I did it again and it stayed asleep last night but it will probably kick on again sometime within the next couple of days…usually does eventually.
Actually this is a problem I’ve always had with Windows that I can remember. But I would really like it to hybrid sleep because it takes a while to get into Steam otherwise.
I don’t know what would cause it to wake up, the kb is wireless and goes to sleep on it’s own if you don’t use it for a few minutes. To wake that up, you have to press a key first then again for it to actually send a command. So unless I have a ghost that’s playing on my kb but I did turn it off to wake the computer in power management so…
I had a similar problem. Here’s what I did:
Go to Power Settings, there’s a few ways to get there, you can get there from your control panel, you can ‘search’ for “power settings” or you can right click on your screen, go to personalize, search for “power and sleep settings” then click on “advanced power settings”…or something along those lines until you get to the screen called “Power Options”. I suspect you know where to find it since this is the place that gives you the different options such as Hybrid, Recommended, Optimized etc.
For whichever one you’ve selected (Hybrid, in you’re case) click on Change Plan Settings, then Change Advanced Power Settings. Scroll down to “Allow Wake Timers” and change it from “Important Wake Timers Only” to “Disabled”.
On preview, I see it looks like you did that, but I’ll leave it up in case it isn’t exactly what you did/how you did it and it helps. In my case, I was finding my laptop already up and running a few times a month even with the lid closed and found out that it was set to wake on important timers, which I learned means the OS can wake itself up to install an update and reboot itself. I thought my computer was dying, turns out the OS changed up somethings…woulda been nice to know a head of time.
Man this thing still is waking up. I double checked everything, none of my devices are set to wake up computer that I can find. Both the mouse/kb is deselected as is wake up on LAN but it still keeps happening! I even deleted everything from the Task Scheduler.
Last 2 incidents was today at 5:27 and again at 6:48, but it stayed off for the past several days till I powered it up again to play a game and DL a couple games on Steam earlier today.
Is there anything else at all that I can do?
Why is it you don’t want to turn it off? I turn mine on and off multiple times a day. I only takes a minute to power up.
And lose where you’re at in all your programs. Browsers are pretty good about restoring their state these days, but most programs are not.
I’m having the same problem as the OP. It’s infuriating. I’ve taken to turning off my monitor so at it doesn’t turn on and wake me up at 4:30 am.
That said, this reminded me to do another search on the topic, and this thread looks promising. I’d done a few of the listed steps but not all of them. It also has a Powershell script to automate the steps.
I tried something posted in an article. powercfg -lastwake in command to see what woke my computer. Unfortunately it just says "wake history count -1. Wake history (0) Wake source count -0
Makes no sense to me.
Thanks for the link dr. strange love, I may have to take a deeper look into Task Scheduler, I thought using Autoruns and disabling tasks would disable all of them but perhaps not.
That said however, my PC woke up 2 more times since I updated the last post, within 2 minutes of each other so doesn’t seem like a scheduled event would do that but I’ll research on some more.
I am not you. I’m sure there is a reason why MS created hibernate and sleep modes and stands to reason that people like me are one or all of those reasons, which are a lot of reasons.
Do you know how to use that Script? Is it a .bat file? Do you run only once or do you have to run it every single time you logon?
I went to task scheduler and under Active tasks, am disabling everything so I’ll see how that works out.
I expect it to be permanent between updates. But I’ve found that updates will reset the settings, so you’ll have to run it again periodically. Some people have taken to setting up a scheduled task that runs every hour or so.
Thanks a lot! I’ll give it a go.