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AdamWu
Sep 04, 2026Iron Contributor
Windows 10 keeps waking up from sleep on its own – no idea what's causing it
I put my Windows 10 PC to sleep before going to bed, and every morning I wake up to find it running. Sometimes it wakes up within an hour, sometimes after a few hours—no pattern I can figure out. I'...
SDGmanison
Sep 11, 2026Iron Contributor
At the command prompt, run:
powercfg /devicequery wake_armed
View the devices that can be woken up, and disable wake-up permissions for all non-essential devices.