Avast, Windows 10 and sleep problems?

I am having a problem with at least 2 win 10 machines (fully updated)
that use Avast free. The boxes go to sleep fine most times but usually
wake right back up with 5 minutes.. Using powercfg /lastwake I always
find that it is Avastsvc.exe causing the boxes to awake. There are
others that have this problem and have had it for awhile and no official
fix yet. Has anyone here running Avast and have seen this?. If so did
you find a cure? I am a little baffled as to why it is doing it and how
to fix.

1st box Xidax custom build
core i7, 16 gigs ram, Nvidia GTX770 graphics card. Win 10 core 64bit.

2nd box Velocity Micro build
core i5 16gigs ram, Nvidia 750ti graphics card. Win 10 Pro 64 bit.

On 25/09/2016 20:06, Drew wrote:
I am having a problem with at least 2 win 10 machines (fully updated)
that use Avast free. The boxes go to sleep fine most times but usually
wake right back up with 5 minutes.. Using powercfg /lastwake I always
find that it is Avastsvc.exe causing the boxes to awake. There are
others that have this problem and have had it for awhile and no official
fix yet. Has anyone here running Avast and have seen this?. If so did
you find a cure? I am a little baffled as to why it is doing it and how
to fix.

1st box Xidax custom build
core i7, 16 gigs ram, Nvidia GTX770 graphics card. Win 10 core 64bit.

2nd box Velocity Micro build
core i5 16gigs ram, Nvidia 750ti graphics card. Win 10 Pro 64 bit.


perhaps your avast is configured to do a system scan or update system
files every few hours and is waking the comp.Have a look in scheduler.

On 9/25/2016 12:20 PM, critcher wrote:
On 25/09/2016 20:06, Drew wrote:
I am having a problem with at least 2 win 10 machines (fully updated)
that use Avast free. The boxes go to sleep fine most times but usually
wake right back up with 5 minutes.. Using powercfg /lastwake I always
find that it is Avastsvc.exe causing the boxes to awake. There are
others that have this problem and have had it for awhile and no official
fix yet. Has anyone here running Avast and have seen this?. If so did
you find a cure? I am a little baffled as to why it is doing it and how
to fix.

1st box Xidax custom build
core i7, 16 gigs ram, Nvidia GTX770 graphics card. Win 10 core 64bit.

2nd box Velocity Micro build
core i5 16gigs ram, Nvidia 750ti graphics card. Win 10 Pro 64 bit.


perhaps your avast is configured to do a system scan or update system
files every few hours and is waking the comp.Have a look in scheduler.

Scheduler is set for once a week. First thing I checked.. Thanks for the
suggestion though.

On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 12:06:49 -0700, in alt.comp.os.windows-10, Drew
wrote:

I am having a problem with at least 2 win 10 machines (fully updated)
that use Avast free. The boxes go to sleep fine most times but usually
wake right back up with 5 minutes.. Using powercfg /lastwake I always
find that it is Avastsvc.exe causing the boxes to awake. There are
others that have this problem and have had it for awhile and no official
fix yet. Has anyone here running Avast and have seen this?. If so did
you find a cure? I am a little baffled as to why it is doing it and how
to fix.

1st box Xidax custom build
core i7, 16 gigs ram, Nvidia GTX770 graphics card. Win 10 core 64bit.

2nd box Velocity Micro build
core i5 16gigs ram, Nvidia 750ti graphics card. Win 10 Pro 64 bit.

I'm running Avast 12.3.3154.6 on my Windows 10 1607 X64 box, which I
believe is the latest version of Avast, and I don't have this problem at
all. I'm not sure why you are experiencing this. Avast doesn't wake my
machine up all the time, and it doesn't have insomnia.

Did you try using their extensive uninstall program?

https://www.avast.com/uninstall-utility

Then do a reinstall?

That might undo whatever has happened to your systems.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

On 9/25/2016 3:06 PM, Drew wrote:
I am having a problem with at least 2 win 10 machines (fully updated)
that use Avast free. The boxes go to sleep fine most times but usually
wake right back up with 5 minutes.. Using powercfg /lastwake I always
find that it is Avastsvc.exe causing the boxes to awake. There are
others that have this problem and have had it for awhile and no official
fix yet. Has anyone here running Avast and have seen this?. If so did
you find a cure? I am a little baffled as to why it is doing it and how
to fix.

I do have one box running Avast (Avast was a recent addition as a matter
of fact), but it was having sleep mode problems long before Avast, and
long after.

In one case, this box would get reawakened after 1 second of sleep, by
something using the Audio driver for some reason. Then it turned out
that the audio driver was being awakened a process that ran Media Center
Update. Except for the fact that Media Center is usually removed by the
Windows 10 installer. So basically the Win10 installer didn't remove the
scheduler entries for Media Center before it uninstalled the Media
center package.

In another case, on the same box, it was being caused by the Windows
Search Indexer running to build indexes. This was immediately after I
had just upgraded from Windows 7 to 10.

Both problems were resolved. In one case, I went into the task scheduler
and disabled the Media Center entries. In the other case, I just let it
run its search indexer.

1st box Xidax custom build
core i7, 16 gigs ram, Nvidia GTX770 graphics card. Win 10 core 64bit.

2nd box Velocity Micro build
core i5 16gigs ram, Nvidia 750ti graphics card. Win 10 Pro 64 bit.

Yeah, similar build in my case, Phenom II X6, 16GB RAM, Nvidia 750Ti,
Win 10 Pro 64.

Yousuf Khan

On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 12:06:49 -0700, Drew
wrote:

I am having a problem with at least 2 win 10 machines (fully updated)
that use Avast free. The boxes go to sleep fine most times but usually
wake right back up with 5 minutes.. Using powercfg /lastwake I always
find that it is Avastsvc.exe causing the boxes to awake. There are
others that have this problem and have had it for awhile and no official
fix yet. Has anyone here running Avast and have seen this?. If so did
you find a cure? I am a little baffled as to why it is doing it and how
to fix.

1st box Xidax custom build
core i7, 16 gigs ram, Nvidia GTX770 graphics card. Win 10 core 64bit.

2nd box Velocity Micro build
core i5 16gigs ram, Nvidia 750ti graphics card. Win 10 Pro 64 bit.
Try running Avast in Silent/gaming mode ( right click the icon in the
system tray to get to this setting). I do this to avoid nearly all the
popup nags. See if it makes a difference.

On 9/26/2016 8:55 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 9/25/2016 3:06 PM, Drew wrote:
I am having a problem with at least 2 win 10 machines (fully updated)
that use Avast free. The boxes go to sleep fine most times but usually
wake right back up with 5 minutes.. Using powercfg /lastwake I always
find that it is Avastsvc.exe causing the boxes to awake. There are
others that have this problem and have had it for awhile and no official
fix yet. Has anyone here running Avast and have seen this?. If so did
you find a cure? I am a little baffled as to why it is doing it and how
to fix.

I do have one box running Avast (Avast was a recent addition as a matter
of fact), but it was having sleep mode problems long before Avast, and
long after.

One other thing, you should run the following command at an elevated
command-prompt:

powercfg /requests

And post the results here.

Yousuf Khan