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Windows Update waking machine from hibernation

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Mar 15, 202615577 views
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One of my family members has a Windows (Vista) machine which is waking itself up from hibernation in an annoying fashion. Some investigation suggests that Windows Update is the guilty party - it doesn't happen every day, but when it does it's always at the time set for Windows Update to install upd…

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Fix for: Windows Update waking machine from hibernation

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If you can't use the group policy editor, use Registry Editor instead. Go to (you may need to create the WindowsUpdate and AU keys) and create a DWORD value named AUPowerManagement. Set this value to 0. Use of this registry key to configure Automati…

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