Hello,
You can check wake history to see if there is something waking the machine
up and what it was.
open an elevated cmd prompt and run:
powercfg /lastwake
Reports information about what woke the system from the last sleep
transition
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
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|> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:38:40 -0500, Sharon F <
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|> >On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:04:12 -0700, Cliff wrote:
|> >
|> >> I shut my laptop down on a Thursday evening and don't require it
until the
|> >> following Monday. However when I return on Monday it has already
started
|> >> itself up and has been running since the previous Friday. I realise
that this
|> >> is probably simply a box that I need to uncheck but not being very
computer
|> >> literate I've not found it, could someone please help. I'm running
Windows
|> >> Vista.
|> >>
|> >> Thanks.
|> >>
|> >> G. Clifford
|> >
|> >Are you powering off or placing the system into one of the sleep
states? Be
|> >sure about what's happening. In Power Management/Power Plans, the power
|> >button for a laptop can be configured to alternatives other than "power
|> >off."
|> >
|> More options can be found in most BIOSes, they include things like
|> letting the network card wake the pc, etc.
|>