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The thread discusses an issue where a Windows 10 laptop opens www.bing.com automatically after waking from sleep, despite not using Bing. Several users suggest that a scheduled task triggered by a wake event may be causing this, with detailed PowerShell commands provided to identify and disable such tasks. The original poster reports trying a PowerShell command to pinpoint the responsible task but receives no response, indicating difficulty in troubleshooting or resolving the issue.
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So when my Win 10 laptop goes to sleep because of inactivity, or I put it to sleep, when I then log back in, a session of www.bing.com pops up?
I never use Bing. Any idea why this is happening?

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This happened with the last major update to Windows 10. If you don't want Bing, there are articles online about disabling and/or removing it.


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Most likely there is a scheduled task firing on a "Wake Event"

Open Powershell and copy/paste the following and run it
Get-ScheduledTask | ? { $_.Triggers -like "*TaskEventTrigger*" } That will tell you which scheduled tasks trigger from an event.

From there you can look at those scheduled tasks and the Trigger will be like this
An image from 'Weird Win 10 Problem'. Screenshots show editing a Windows Task Scheduler trigger for a Power-Troubleshooter event.
 
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A little more complicated Powershell, but this will just tell you which one has the Wake from Sleep Event
Get-ScheduledTask | ? { $_.Triggers -like "*TaskEventTrigger*" } | % { $event = $_; $_.Triggers | % { if($_.SubScription -like "*Power-Trouble*"){$event } } }
 
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You can just open scheduled tasks locate the task from the command above and right click it and select Disable or Delete
 

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Neemobeer said:
A little more complicated Powershell, but this will just tell you which one has the Wake from Sleep Event
Get-ScheduledTask | ? { $_.Triggers -like "*TaskEventTrigger*" } | % { $event = $_; $_.Triggers | % { if($_.SubScription -like "*Power-Trouble*"){$event } } }
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I get no response back from the above command?
 
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