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July 6th, 2024 15:13
Inspiron Desktop won't wake from sleep every Saturday
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My Inspiron desktop running Windows 11 won't wake from sleep every Saturday morning. Works fine all week but on Saturday, I have to force shut it down and restart. Sometimes it will wake early Saturday morning but then a few hours later I have the issue. Issue still occurs if I reboot the day before so doesn't appear to be related to duration. I've already unchecked the "Allow computer to turn off device to save power" setting for all the USB devices that have a power management tab. Is there a setting somewhere I'm overlooking?
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RoHe
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July 7th, 2024 19:51
Is something set to run once a week, eg overnight Fri, antiviral scan, an app's updater phoning home for updates..?
Open Windows Task Scheduler and click Task Scheduler Library in left pane. Then sort right pane by Last Run Time to see what/any task(s) ran right before you force rebooted on Sat.
Depending on what the task is, you could disable it and see if that solves the problem. Obviously don't disable anything essential like Windows Update or tasks needed to boot the PC.
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July 9th, 2024 02:21
@RoHe Thanks for the reply. The only think I see that ran around that time is WD Discovery which is some type of agent for a portable Western Digital HD. Is there a way to look further back in time in Task Scheduler to see if that runs every Saturday morning? I don't see any history older than Saturday in the task scheduler.
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July 9th, 2024 18:24
Task Scheduler should also show you when WD Discovery is next scheduled to run, so that might tell you if it's your Sat morning problem child. You could set it to disabled and see if the problem still happens this coming Sat.
Just keep in mind there are lots of Windows tasks that run automatically at scheduled times, so disabling WD Discovery may not fix your Sat wake problem.
You can enable All Tasks History. Click Windows Scheduler (Local) in left pane. Now look on far right for a pane labeled Actions. Scroll down the list and click Enable All Tasks History. If disabling the WD task doesn't help, you'll have to look at every task to see which one(s) only run every 7 days (on a Sat), but don't disable any of them until you're sure you won't cause even worse problems.