Replies

Well, this did work, but unfortunately, even in this setting, Windows Update is still unacceptably obnoxious. It kept constantly popping up a toast notification that there were updates, which even popped up over full screen games and would not go away until interacted with, and they couldn’t be disabled (that I could see).

So the hell with it. I’m not putting up with this behavior. Windows Update is once again firewalled and the service disabled and blocked from running. I’ll just unblock it once a month, install and reboot, and block it until the next month.

So, a few days later and this problem hasn’t come back. Go to Settings > Power and sleep settings > Additional power settings > Choose what power buttons do > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings and FINALLY the dialog you want pops up (goodness, Microsoft). Change to the power profile you’re using in the drop down, go down to +Sleep > +Allow wake timers and set it to disable.

I tried the method posted elsewhere using psexec to launch the task scheduler, but the entries for reboot were already set to disabled. I did find 10 entries there, two of which were set to “wake the computer .” I’ve disabled that and reenabled wake timers to see if the problem comes back. I have automated backups and would rather have the software be able to wake the computer to run, so keeping “wake timers” disabled permanently isn’t a good option for me.

1 user thanked author for this post.

DriftyDonN

I’ve become aware that I have the insomniac bug and I’m pretty certain it’s a new development for me. The PC started waking itself constantly last night and I finally just turned it off so I could get some [EDITED] sleep.

It was not doing this before last night. The only thing I can think of that’s changed is I have disabled “Fast Startup” and “Hibernate” to try to see if that would solve a different issue (my AMD graphics driver settings keep resetting on reboot).

I read someone’s Reddit post where they say disabling “Wake Timers” in advanced power settings will fix this issue. I’ll try that for a few days and see if it works.

In my case, this is a brand new PC, brand new copy of Win 10 Pro 1909 installed less than a month ago. I have Windows  Updates set to check and notify, but not download or install (via group policy). I’m using a local account, which was briefly hijacked into a Microsoft account when I logged into the Windows Store, and then converted right back to a local account (I’d like to strangle whoever designed it to do that).

I see I also have that search bug, but I didn’t notice it until now because I never use File Explorer’s search anyway. I use a search tool called “Everything” when I need to search for a file. It’s amazingly fast and finds whatever I’m looking for before I even finish typing the name.

EDIT: for language (again)
“Swearing, cursing or blasphemy are unacceptable” (from Lounge Rules – please familiarise yourself with them)