Computer turning itself on in night....

unplug the lan cable see if this fixes the problem, I have the same issue. sleep, pc turns off 5 seconds later it turns on again.....
and I believe turning off "wake on lan" doesnt work always.
 
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Alright, so, last night, around 04:30 again, the computer came back on, this time i managed to do powercfg -lastwake, and i got this:
Wake History Count - 1
Wake History [0]
Wake Source Count - 1
Wake Source [0]
Type: Wake Timer
Owner: [PROCESS] \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\services.exe
Owner Supplied Reason: Windows will execute '\Microsoft\Windows\Media Center
\mcupdate_scheduled' scheduled task that requested waking the computer.


By the looks of things windows media center is looking for an update at 04:30...
 
You beat me to it. Yes i had this with windows 7. Go to scheduled tasks and then media center. For all tasks under this section, untick 'wake the computer to perform this task'
 
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You beat me to it. Yes i had this with windows 7. Go to scheduled tasks and then media center. For all tasks under this section, untick 'wake the computer to perform this task'
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Aha! Thanks for this, it was set to 04:07 for some reason, stupid time.

Hopefully tonight we'll find out that all is good.
 
It annoyed the hell out of me for a week until i sat down and worked out what was going on. Couldn't understand it, thought the cat kept walking over my keyboard during the night or something :p

Stupid microsoft.
 
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