{"id":59,"date":"2009-05-06T22:50:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T22:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurie.denness.net\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2009-05-06T22:53:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T22:53:42","slug":"really-stop-vista-from-waking-you-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/2009\/05\/really-stop-vista-from-waking-you-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Really stop Vista from waking you up in the middle of the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/laurie.denness.net\/blog\/?p=52\">posted something a little while back<\/a> about my troubles with getting Vista to stop waking up randomly in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Enough was enough, so I decided to go for a clean install to see if that fixed it and a number of other problems I had. And what do you know, it STILL woke up randomly, and the wake cause was still &#8220;unknown&#8221;. Extremely frustrating considering it was a completely new installation.<\/p>\n<p>I dug around a little more and in the end had to settle for this handy tip: If your computer keeps waking up (and it might be my motherboard\/OS combination it appears, it looks like an Asus thing&#8230;) run these commands and it will completely disable ACPI wakeup:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. powercfg -setacvalueindex scheme_current sub_sleep bd3b718a-0680-4d9d-8ab2-e1d2b4ac806d 0<br \/>\n2. powercfg -setdcvalueindex scheme_current sub_sleep bd3b718a-0680-4d9d-8ab2-e1d2b4ac806d 0<br \/>\n3. powercfg -setactive scheme_current<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This way, whether on AC or on DC, the Vista will refuse to wake up if the motherboard sends a call asking for it. This is good if you get random wakeups, but it does of course mean that if there is a legimate reason that your computer should wake itself (e.g., Windows Media Center waking to record a program) it will no longer do it. However, you can re-enable it if you need this functionality for, say, a day or two, by simply swapping the 0&#8217;s for 1&#8217;s in the above commands. For me, it&#8217;s far more attractive to have a sound night sleep without your machine coming out of sleep for no reason!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted something a little while back about my troubles with getting Vista to stop waking up randomly in the middle of the night. Enough was enough, so I decided to go for a clean install to see if that fixed it and a number of other problems I had. And what do you know, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/2009\/05\/really-stop-vista-from-waking-you-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Really stop Vista from waking you up in the middle of the night<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-vista-standby-acpi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioRW-X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}