I don't like this automatic updates malarky.

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I put my PC to sleep as I was going to bed and wasn't going to be using it for while. Imagine my surprise when I got up to take a leak and and noticed the faint glow of the monitor shining through the crack at the bottom of the door. Upon checking, the bloody thing had awoken itself from sleep, downloaded & installed a load of updates and then left itself on.

By all means wake it up to download the updates, but at least put it back to sleep when it's done. What's the ****ing point of having a sleep function if the OS isn't going to leave it to sleep when I want it to sleep?
 
Sounds like you did a standby (s1) rather than a sleep (s3), I think if you enable s3 in bios Windows will use it by default, if not some Windows guy might know how to toggle this setting, or there may be a small utility that can do this for you.

But yea, I agree it's a bit silly.
 
new numa hey said:
Thats not the point. If he puts it on sleep. IT SHOULD just sleep.

However it normally does give you warnings that it will install updates and restart the PC. Did you ignore them?
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I put the PC to sleep before going to bed, then when I got up for a pee at 04:30 I noticed the PC was awake. I had no warnings of imminent updates. How can I ignore something that I haven't had?
 
Why is this in the Window 10 forum? Hasn't every version of Windows done this since the invention of Windows Updates?
 
In previous Windows you could set it so it only checked for updates when you did so manually, in Windows 10 automatic is the only option (well for home edition at least, in pro you can "defer", so it happens less often, but in the end it's still automatic not manual).
 
Now that you mention it, this would explain why my laptop is turned on/battery dead when going to use it the next day.

I never shut the laptop down, always just press the power button to put it to sleep. Since upgrading to Windows 10, ocasionally when I grab my laptop the next day and open the lid, it's actually powered on. I thought it was strange as it's happened a couple of times.
 
Right, I won't know if this works until the next update when the PC is asleep, but if go into

Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options > Edit Plan Settings and then hit the Change advanced power settings
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In there there is an option for 'Sleep', expand it and there's an 'Allow Wake Timers' option. I disabled it.
 
Mustang said:
In previous Windows you could set it so it only checked for updates when you did so manually, in Windows 10 automatic is the only option (well for home edition at least, in pro you can "defer", so it happens less often, but in the end it's still automatic not manual).
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That isn't the issue he's complaining about. He's complaining that the PC wakes itself and then doesn't put itself back to sleep if you don't have a sleep timer set.

This has been how Windows has worked since forever. All Windows 10 has done is add Windows Update to the long list of things that can wake your PC.

I agree it would be nice to have a "return to previous state" option on things that wake the PC, but this is exactly how a Windows 8, 7, Vista, or XP machine would have worked if you had Updates on Automatic.

Its solved by setting a sleep timer, or preventing wake timers like above.
 
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