My (windows 10) pc wakes up every hour for 2 minutes how do I stop that?

Question

I think the question speaks for itself?

some extract from

powercfg /SLEEPSTUDY

Why does it do that and how do I stop it?

powercfg /WAKETIMERS

C:\WINDOWS\system32>powercfg /WAKETIMERS
Timer set by [SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume3\Windows\System32\svchost.exe (SystemEventsBroker) expires at 17:55:30 on 8-1-2018.
  Reason: De geplande taak NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Reboot wordt uitgevoerd, waarmee het inschakelen van de computer wordt aangevraagd.

The dutch text says: The planned task NT TASK\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Reboot is being executed, with which the power on of the computer is requested.

Answer 1

https://www.howtogeek.com/122954/how-to-prevent-your-computer-from-waking-up-accidentally/

That is a very detailed article on how to detect, then prevent any/all wake timers from turning on your PC, but here's a short rundown on 1 of the options that might take care of your situation:

Go to your Power Options,
Click "Change plan settings",
Click "Change advanced power settings",
Expand "Sleep",
Expand "Allow Wake Timers",
Click the option and select "Disable"

This might only take care of some of your issue, so go through all the other options as a safeguard for all options. As the article mentions, it might be your "mouse, keyboard, or network adapter or events like wake timers or automatic maintenance".

What I suggested above, on second thought, might disable wake on keyboard or mouse click, so that might be too much for what you want. You'll have to do some testing, since I don't have that ability right now.

Answer 2

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Install pstools https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pstools

Extract the tool package

Open cmd with admin rights

Use either psexec (32 bit system) or psexec64 (64 bit system)

psexec64 cmd.exe

In the new cmd window run

SCHTASKS /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Reboot" /DISABLE

Results in

INFO: Scheduled task "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Reboot" has already been disabled. SUCCESS: The parameters of scheduled task "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Reboot" have been changed.

Also run this to disable access to above setting

icacls "%WINDIR%\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Reboot" /inheritance:r /deny "Everyone:F" /deny "SYSTEM:F" /deny "Local Service:F" /deny "Administrators:F"

Results in

processed file: C:\WINDOWS\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Reboot Successfully processed 1 files; Failed processing 0 files

You can check the Task Scheduler (with admin rights) for Reboot task; it is disabled and access is denied. Also check that the Schedule Scan and USO_Broker_Display tasks have "Wake the computer to run this task" unchecked in "Conditions" tab.

Done! And you again own your own computer which you paid for :) FU MS. Thanks to DebayanGupta at

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/administrator-account-not-allowed-to-disable

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Answer 3

PSexec didn't work for me because access denied. In such case what you can do is: open notepad and type

schtasks /tn "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Universal Orchestrator Start" /change /disable > c:\temp\res.txt 2>&1

save it as something like c:\temp\disableit.cmd

open task scheduler, create new task, set action to run the above created file

set task to run under SYSTEM

run task and check the logfile c:\temp\res.txt. It should say

SUCCESS: The parameters of scheduled task "Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\Universal Orchestrator Start" have been changed.