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Why does my computer keep switching on?

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Mar 15, 202616708 views
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My computer seems to randomly turn itself on, usually in the middle of the night when I'm asleep. It's in my bedroom so it wakes me up. I'm running Windows 7 and I don't know if it's trying to runs updates but it doesn't seem to be doing anything once it's on. It only seems to do it only when it's …

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Fix for: Why does my computer keep switching on?

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You need to check what wakeup mechanisms you have configured. Any on of them will push it out of sleep. Check Fix for Windows 7 "random wake from sleep" problem. It refers the powercfg tool, powercfg -lastwake will tell you what tripped it the last …

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