Comments on: Fix "Sleep Mode Randomly Waking Up" Issue in Windows Vista

By: Oscar

Oscar — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:18:05 +0000

My vista laptop randomly wakes-up. It might be a few minutes later I put it into sleep or hours later sometime in the middle of the night. All “allow this device to wake-up computer” options are unchecked.

When I type powercfg -lastwake

Wake History Count – 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count – 1
Wake Source [0]
Type: Fixed Feature
Timer Expired (RTC)

is the result and if I run powercfg -devicequery wake_armed

HID-compliant mouse (001)
eHome Infrared Receiver (USBCIR)

is the result. Please help me!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:15:49 +0000

A lot of folks are having the opposite problem – Vista falling back asleep after being woken up by a scheduled task. It falls asleep after 2 minutes by default. You can change the registry value so your task can actually finish before Vista goes back to sleep. http://annoyances-resolved.blo.....-wake.html describes the details of changing the registry.

By: JD

JD — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:01:32 +0000

Thanks IR – that fixed it

By: IR

IR — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:49:55 +0000

Hey Guys, I fixed the problem on my computer of it automatically turning on after put into sleep by doing this:
Power Options —> Change when the computer sleeps —-> Change advanced power settings. Then expand “Multimedia Settings” and “When Sharing Media” and change the settings to “allow the computer to sleep”. I dont know if that has already been covered but it worked like magic for me.

By: TomUK

TomUK — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:43:48 +0000

Same problems here… had them in Vista, and now identical in Windows 7 RTM
Running 64bit W7 Ultimate.

Checked all of the above…. nothing helps

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:49:28 +0000

Hey everyone. I tried following all these instructions but im STILL having trouble putting my computer into sleep mode. Its a vista 32 bit, and i’ve tried EVERYTHING.

I’ve tried unchecking “Allow device to wake up sleep mode” or whatever on my keybaord, mouse, LAN, router, EVERYTHING. Nothing works.

Please…someone help me…ive been looking on google for the past 2 hours.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:02:24 +0000

THANKS A MILLION!

By: mike

mike — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:56:35 +0000

for the people who have a problem with their internet connection waking the computer from sleep mode, do this. Click START, CONTROL PANEL, DEVICE MANAGER,click onto the + sign to the left of
Network Adapters,right click your “internet connection” heading and choose PROPERTIES and then click onto Power Management Tab then put a checkmark in the First box that says “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power”. Click ok. You are done!

By: floris

floris — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:14:55 +0000

I have the same problem as most people here.
My computer pops back on a couple of seconds after I try to put it in sleep mode.
Have tried everything.
the WOL, the usb devices, mouse, keyboard, unplugging all my usb and firewire devices, loads of other stuff I already forgot.
But it keeps doing it.
This is so depressing…

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:53:47 +0000

THANK YOU! I got a new HP Pavilion and its great but it had the same problem! Even though its a desktop and doesen’t use a battery, it’s annoying to have it wake up from sleep like when I go out to dinner or something and don’t wanna shut it completly down. I don’t get why they made that option enabled to begin with though!