Windows 10 Computer Wakes During Night

Since I've updated my computer to win 10, it's been waking up in the middle of the night (it's important to note that this DID NOT happen before I updated, in windows 7). I'm not sure at what time it wakes up (as far as I can tell, it varies), but consistently, whenever I get out of bed, it's awake. I've actually researched this pretty extensively, and I've done everything that I know of to try and get it to stop. I disabled waking the computer for all WMC tasks (and looked through the rest of the tasks to see if the culprit was there, which it wasn't), I set the "automatic maintenance" time to noon, and in the device manager, I prevented all of my hardware devices from waking it. At first, the powercfg -lastwake command yielded that my networking adapter had woken the computer, but I disabled that. Now, the computer wakes, and, according to windows, nothing woke it. The command powercfg -waketimers also yields that there are no active wake timers. Below, I'll put the output of various powercfg commands, in the hope that someone will be able to use them.

λ powercfg -waketimers
There are no active wake timers in the system.


λ powercfg -requests
DISPLAY:
None.

SYSTEM:
[DRIVER] Realtek High Definition Audio (HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0900&SUBSYS_1462D916&REV_1000\4&2340e212&0&0001)
An audio stream is currently in use.
[DRIVER] \FileSystem\srvnet
An active remote client has recently sent requests to this machine.

AWAYMODE:
None.

EXECUTION:
None.

PERFBOOST:
None.

λ powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
  Wake Source Count - 0

Darth Vader

Posted 2015-08-28T01:09:36.760

Reputation: 141

Do you have a cat? – goblinbox – 2015-08-28T02:58:35.637

@goblinbox nope – Darth Vader – 2015-08-28T04:13:41.043

did you check what time it's set to check for updates? - it usually defaults to something like 3am – Tetsujin – 2015-08-28T06:27:30.917

@Tetsujin I went through all of the Task Scheduler items (and I mean all), and rescheduled or disabled waking on all of the ones that occur before 10 AM. In addition to that, I rescheduled the "automatic maintenence" to occur at noon. – Darth Vader – 2015-08-28T06:30:30.693

I actually put in the OP that, for a while, that may have been what was waking it, but I disabled it about a week and a half ago. – Darth Vader – 2015-08-28T02:14:42.890

Have you tried to disable other peripherals such as mouse and keyboard? Just ruling out a few things... – TonyMorello – 2015-08-28T02:16:44.347

Yup. I looked through all of my hardware devices an disabled anything with the option. – Darth Vader – 2015-08-28T02:17:40.933

Have you installed anything since you updated to Win10? (you can always try and use the force if everything else fails...) – TonyMorello – 2015-08-28T02:19:51.227

Only noticeable things other than a few steam games are ccleaner, fraps, and f.lux (and, unfortunately, I destroyed the Jedi Academy just short of when I was scheduled for the IT part of my force training). – Darth Vader – 2015-08-28T02:23:32.053

f.lux is a nifty program... I will try it... anyways you might want to uninstall it and see if that's the culprit as it probably runs in the background as far as I can tell and it obviously keeps track of the time of the day... I don't know how it works in the specific but it might be what wakes you pc up... try for a couple night without it and see... – TonyMorello – 2015-08-28T02:29:26.537

Windows 10 Computer Wakes During Night

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