Windows immediately comes out of sleep mode
Out of nowhere I started having problems with my machine staying in Sleep Mode. I would select the Sleep button, the machine would power down, then immediately start right back up even though I hadn’t touched the keyboard or clicked the mouse. It hasn’t had this sort of problem before, so what the devil is wrong? I started searching and found all sorts of wild ideas to try such as turning off the Power Management for the keyboard, mouse and network card. Those, sound like reasonable ideas, but the likelihood of that being the real culprit is slim to none. One thing I did learn was a neat command called: powercfg -lastwake Once the machine goes to sleep and then wakes again, you run that command to note what device caused the machine to wake up. Alright, now we’re getting somewhere. Some solid troubleshooting not just randomly clicking power management buttons. Here’s the output of what I got: C:\Users\>powercfg -lastwake […]
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