Windows 7 wake up from sleep alone


  1. animesekai
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
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    Windows 7 wake up from sleep alone


    Last few day windows been waking up by itself randomly, here's the screen shot of the problem, nothing's been touch when woke up from sleep either(mouse, keyboard)
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  3. carwiz
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    Windows 7 Pro-x64
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    Looks like Media Center update requested the wake.
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  4. Brink
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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    Hello Animesekai,

    The tutorial below will help show you how to prevent Media Center updating from being able to wake up the computer.

    Windows Media Center Updates - Enable or Disable Waking Computer

    Hope this helps,
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