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Had my PC tell me that access was denied.

I did a little Googling and found that indeed, lots of people were unable to make their Windows PCs stay asleep because they weren’t allowed to disable UpdateOrchestratorReboot’s wake timer.Īfter searching for a bit, I found this Microsoft support thread from December 2017, in which a poster (not a Microsoft support person!) who goes by DebayanGupta had shared an input for the Command Prompt that looked like it would let me disable the wake timer.Ĩ. It’s usually safe to assume that if I’m running into some dumbassed Windows problem, other people are as well. Googled the stupid thing that went wrong. “The supplied variant structure contains invalid data.”Īs it turned out, I could not uncheck the wake timer box through that series of menus. From there I needed to click “Change when the computer sleeps,” over on the side, then click “Change advanced power settings.” Then I navigated down to “Sleep” under the advanced settings, and made sure “Allow wake timers” was disabled.

Going into Control Panel > Power & Sleep Settings got me into the neighbourhood. This is a common solution, and usually what I try first. I will now walk you through how I fixed it. I put off dealing with the problem for as long as I could.

Windows PCs just do not like to stay asleep.Ī couple of weeks ago, after months of restful sleep, my PC once again began to wake itself up in the middle of the night. Given the number of my colleagues who describe similar issues, along with the volume of internet guides, forum threads, and tutorial videos on the subject, I sense that it’s a widespread problem. This is a basic thing for an operating system to keep getting wrong. I’ll try toggling some setting or other, and eventually I’ll figure out how to make it stay asleep.Īll will be well for a while, but eventually, inevitably, it will begin waking up again.Įvery time that happens, I marvel at what a stupid problem it is. I’ll spend some time Googling, reading, and trying to determine the problem. Things will be fine for a while, then I’ll wake up one morning to find it turned on, purring away and slowly sucking power from the wall. I love it to death, but ever since I first turned it on, it has suffered from sporadic insomnia.