About this tag
The auto wakeup tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions where Windows computers wake from sleep mode without user intervention. Users report that their systems turn on minutes after being put to sleep, even when power settings do not have any auto-wakeup feature enabled. Common troubleshooting steps include checking BIOS settings for wake timers, disabling wake timers in power options, and reviewing device properties to prevent mice, keyboards, or network adapters from waking the PC. The tag focuses on resolving unwanted wake events in Windows, with threads often comparing behavior across different Windows versions like Vista and later releases.
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Windows 7 Windows doesn't stay asleep.
Hello everyone. For some reason when I but Windows to Sleep, a couple minutes later it turns itself on again. In the power options I don't have any "auto-wakeup" sort of feature enabled, so I have no idea what it could be. This never happened to me on Vista before, and I checked the Bios and...- Picartman
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- auto wakeup bios computer hibernate settings sleep troubleshooting windows windows vista
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