Windows 7: Lastwake Command

tanitani · 08 May 2011

Thank you. The powercfg -lastwake command is not working as you described. The following is the result of running it every time the laptop woke up. The first one was a spontaneous wake the rest were by opening the display, NOT a BUTTON!
Thanks.
Gábor

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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
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C:\Windows\system32>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 0

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
Type: Fixed Feature
Power Button

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
Type: Fixed Feature
Power Button

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
Type: Fixed Feature
Power Button

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
Type: Fixed Feature
Power Button

C:\Windows\system32>powercfg -lastwake
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
Type: Fixed Feature
Power Button

Brink · 08 May 2011

Hello Gábor, and welcome to Seven Forums.

"Power Button" may just be a general term used for whatever action "opening the display" you did to wake the computer.

You might also check the items listed in this tutorial to see if it may help determine what woke up your computer as well.

Power Options and Sleep Mode Problems - Vista Forums

tanitani · 22 May 2011

Hello Brink,

Thank you for the quick reply. And thank you for the welcome as well.
I followed your tutorial, and after checking everything the only setting that was different was the:

PCI Express -> Link State Power Management -> Off

For me it was "On". I made the change and so far (about a week) it seems that it works: the laptop did not wake on its own.

The "opening the display" just meant that I opened the screen/lid/display of my laptop up.
Which should not happen actually, since I set the action for "When I close the lid" as "Do nothing".
On all the other laptops I worked with this setting allowed me to also open the laptop without it turning on, but this is a bit off topic.

Thanks again and now that the world did not come to an end (May 21 was supposed to be the end of the world, later it was rescheduled to be October 21 and May 21 was to be the date of "Rapture") I wish you have a good day!

Gábor

Brink · 22 May 2011

Hello Gábor,

That's great news. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. Thank you for posting back with your results.

Next it will be for Halloween night.

Pixel Eater · 28 Feb 2013

So what exactly does "Wake Source Count - 0" tell us? Because something is waking my computer up, but all I see is...

Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 0

This helped me fix a classic wake on Ethernet problem before, but now I'm not sure.

Brink · 28 Feb 2013

Hello Pixel Eater,

That indicates it doesn't have a wake source and a reason why.

If you haven't already, give OPTION TWO a try to see if Event Viewer may have a log of what woke the computer up.

Hope this helps for now.

hansa1 · 18 Dec 2014

This has been a great help in determining what is waking my computer every hour. Thanks

BTW,

Quote:

For example:
This is what last woke up my computer from above. Just for information purposes, you can look this up in Device Manager (devmgmt.msc).

HID=Harware ID

Description - HID-compliant Bluetooth Mouse

I believe that in this case "HID" refers to "Human Interface Device".

ColFrogfoot · 09 Jul 2015

Hi I have tried command prompt and gotten
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 0

I tried option 2 and got
Sleep Time: ‎2015‎-‎07‎-‎09T13:31:38.329965500Z
Wake Time: ‎2015‎-‎07‎-‎09T13:46:45.997946700Z

Wake Source: Unknown

I cannot stop it from waking up

Brink · 09 Jul 2015

Hello ColFrogfoot, and welcome to Seven Forums.

In addition, check your wake source log to see if it may reveal a culprit.

Wake Source - Read Event Viewer Log