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When traveling so far happened twice that I found the notebook boiling inside the case and the battery depleted, apparently it woke from hibernate but I couldn't say way. 

I run the machine lid closed on a docking station and uncable from that when I travel. Win10 Enterprise. Pointers appreciated.

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Try these tips out. 

 

To keep your computer from waking up in sleep mode, go to Power & Sleep Settings. Then click Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings and disable Allow wake timers under Sleep.

  1. Click the magnifying glass icon in the bottom-left corner of your screen.
  2. Then type Power & sleep into the search bar and click Open
  3. Then scroll down and click Additional power settings. You will see thins under Related settings. This will open a new window with your Control Panel settings.
  4. Next, select Balanced and click Change plan settings.
  5. Then click Change advanced power settings. The Power Options window will pop up
  6. Next, expand the Sleep section and then expand Allow wake timers. You can do this by clicking the plus sign next to it.
  7. Finally, select disable and click Apply. Doing this will stop your computer from waking up when an app or your operating system wants to alert you. You can also set your wake timers for “Important Wake Timers Only” on a Windows 10 PC.

If this doesn’t solve your problem, there are several other reasons why your Windows 10 computer might be waking from sleep mode. It could be an oversensitive mouse, a program running, or other wake events. Here’s how to find out what is causing the problem.

 

To find out what is causing your computer to wake up, open Command Prompt as an administrator and type in powercfg/lastwake. Then type powercfg/waketimers to find out if you have any wake timers on.

  1. Click the magnifying glass icon in the bottom-left corner of your screen.
  2. Then type Command Prompt into the search bar.
  3. Next, click Open as administrator. You will get a pop-up message asking if you want to run the program as an administrator. Click Yes.
  4. Then type in powercfg/lastwake and hit Enter on your keyboard. This will show you whether it is your devices, programs, or other actions that caused your Windows 10 computer to wake up. If you see something like USB, that means it is probably one of your USB devices, like your mouse of your keyboard.
  5. Then type powercfg/waketimers to see if you have any wake timers set on your computer. This will show you if there are any processes or tasks that are scheduled and are causing your Windows 10 computer to wake up.

To stop a device from waking your Windows 10 computer up from sleep mode, open the Device Manager and double-click a device. Then click the Power Management tab and untick the box next to Allow this device to wake up the computer.

  1. First, type powercfg -devicequery wake_armed into the Command Prompt. This will tell you which devices are causing your Windows 10 computer to wake up. 
  2. In the example above, the keyboard and mouse are the only devices that are waking up the computer from sleep mode.

  3. Then press the Windows key + R on your keyboard. This will cause the Run box to pop up

  4. Next, type devmgmt.msc into the search bar and click OK.  
  5. Select the device that’s causing your computer to wake up and double-click it. This will open up the device’s properties.
  6. Then click the Power Management
  7. Finally, untick Allow this device to wake up the computer and click OK.
  8. To stop a program from waking up your Windows 10 computer, open the Command Prompt and type powercfg -requests. This will show you the program that is keeping your computer from sleeping. Then close the program.
 
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