Windows 10 does not wake on schedule

Question

I recently upgraded a Win7 media server to Windows 10 pro. I have a scheduled task to wake the server at a specified time; however it no longer works in Windows 10. It worked perfectly fine in 7. Now, it only works if the computer has been sleeping for less than about one hour.

I have tried changing the following power options:

• Disabling hibernation
• Turn off hard disk after: never
• Allowed wake timers
• Changing system sleep state in BIOS

Noting has worked. The scheduled wake up is just ignored. Is there anything I missed?

Answer 1

Try changing power options.

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• Right-click on power options (In the taskbar).
• Change plan settings (whatever plan you are using, either balanced or power saving, or high performance).
• Change advanced power settings.
• check the power setting in the drop-down box.
• Scroll down till you see sleep menu.
• expand it.
• Expand Allow wake timers.
• change it from "Important wake Timers only/disable" to "Enable"