Vista Spontaneously Awakens from Standby

[mxcrowe]

Thanks for your help with this Shawn...I hope there is a solution somewhere!
I never used Vista's Defrag, but when I started it today, it claims to have a schedule set. Not sure how this could cause the "every 2 hours" issue, but I turned it off anyway.
Don't have any trial s/w that I know of.
Don't have a USB Tuner card.

 

[Brink]

Your welcome Mxcrowe, but I just do not know what else may be waking up your computer either.

The only thing I can suggest is to strip the computer down to the bare essentials and add items and programs one by one testing inbetween to see if that is the culprit.

I hope someone may know of an easier way to try and find the culprit, or know what it may be.

 

[mxcrowe]

Yeah, I guess I'm just going to uninstall suspicious apps until I find out which one is secretly co-opting my system. I will then be very angry with whoever it turns out to be!

 

[mxcrowe]

Shawn,
Just wanted to close this topic with a solution:
Basically, what I did (on advice from a guy at The Green Button) was to disable the RTC wake ability in Vista. This, of course, will stop your machine from auto-waking for any reason - to record a show, defrag, whatever has been set to auto-wake. I personally have no use for auto-wake - when I put the machine to sleep, I want it to STAY THERE!

So, here are the steps:

1. Open a CMD prompt
2. powercfg -setacvalueindex scheme_current sub_sleep bd3b718a-0680-4d9d-8ab2-e1d2b4ac806d 0
3. powercfg -setdcvalueindex scheme_current sub_sleep bd3b718a-0680-4d9d-8ab2-e1d2b4ac806d 0
4. powercfg -setactive scheme_current

This changes and applies a new power scheme that stops the machine from being woken from sleep. In my case, I have a desktop system and probably didn't need to set the DC option, but I did both anyway. Thankfully, I was able to find the only person on the planet who appears to know how to do this...

The only remaining issue is that I still don't know for sure what horrible piece of software thought it was a good idea to wake my machine every 2 hours...I have a pretty good suspicion, but I do not intend to reset the powercfg settings to test it, so I won't name names, since I can't be positive. Just happy to have control of my machine back!

 

[Brink]

Thank you Mxcrowe for posting back your solution and results.

Shawn