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Old December 28th 17, 08:10 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Optimist
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Default PC insomnia

On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 22:43:26 -0800, mike wrote:

On 12/27/2017 10:34 PM, Optimist wrote:
Why is it that very often the PC keeps awake? The monitor switches off OK, but whereas sometimes
the PC's light blinks indicating sleep, very often it just keeps going, sometimes for more than 24
hours.

I know W10 has to do housekeeping tasks like creating backups of the operating system but surely
these tasks can't take all that time?

I have looked at the task monitor during those times and apart from the time when it was downloading
a W10 update, there hasn't been excessive internet traffic which would might indicate a malware
infection.

I use the balanced power plan, with the recommended settings. I now use Kaspersky Internet
Security, but the behaviour occurred when I used AVG.

Any ideas please?

There are a bunch of power plan settings having to do with what devices
can prevent sleep or awaken the system.
This system refused to stay asleep. Traced it to the network controller.
I fiddled with it 'till I was blue in the tooth. Finally disabled the
interface in device manager and installed a PCI LAN card. Been sleeping
fine ever since.

If you review the system logs, they will often have an entry for each
time the system wakes or sleeps. Sometimes, that's easy to follow.
Other times you get something cryptic that doesn't help.


Thank you, Mike!
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