How to stop tasks from waking up PC?

[martinlest]

One of my PCs keeps waking up from standby, with no input from me. I have set things so that the (home) network and devices (keyboard/mouse) should not do this, but I still have the problem.

I ran this in a CMD window

powercfg -lastwake

and got the result in the screenshot.

I don't necessarily want to turn this kind of update (though Windows Media update could certainly be removed), but I can't see a way in Scheduled Tasks, or in Services, to turn of the 'Wake up PC to run this task' option.

Could anyone please advise what I need to do (in this specific case, and also generally, for future reference)?

Thank you.

 

[mrjimphelps]

You should be able to stop this by going to Control Panel / Power settings. Click on the link for advanced power settings. Then expand the listing for Sleep. Under the Sleep listing there is an option for disabling / enabling wake up tasks. This should allow you to stop the auto wakeups.

 

[martinlest]

Great - so much more straight forward that what I had been attempting. Thank you.