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What is the deal with windows waking up and just… staying on? Surely people don’t need desktops blasting out heat for 12 hours, or dead laptops sitting in warm bags.
I mean, if you're playing the long-term seeding game for a private tracker you do. (Because you can't afford a seedbox)
I have had good experience preventing this from happening by disabling Wake-On-LAN, or enabling deeper sleep modes that remove that capability, on my systems that don’t need it.
My suspicion is that many devices these days are pinging the LAN devices around them, for instance other Windows machines looking for printers and network shares, and this is waking devices that are in higher sleep states.
No idea, but I have had some weird behavior from my work laptop, it is not uncommon to get MFA sign in requests on my phone in the middle of the night, and in the morning I have two MFA prompts, one for Outlook, and one for Teams, so something on my work laptop wakes it up from sleep in my bag and Outlook and Teams tries to login generating the prompt...
No idea what is going on...
It has to be a driver thing from my side. I use a laptop that's made by a Chinese ODM, so driver support for the onboard stuff can be a bit lacking after the following model releases. It's just how it is. My LAN adapters' settings have wake-on-LAN disabled.
I think something about the sleep state isn't working quite right because of that. Windows' own Event Viewer reporting system will just tell me it exited a sleep state for an unknown reason.
Edit: I might have replied to the wrong comment lol. Should be some Wake-On-Lan thing in your case, I think.
I recently built a gaming pc for the first time in a long time and was surprised by this behavior (I don't use windows for anything else nowadays). After that first time I developed the habit of switching off the power supply when I shut it down. So weird. Nice that it resulted in a win this time though!