Defender keeps waking up my PC

[Mikey the Quick]

HP has a nice website explaining what to do if the computer won't go
to sleep. Took me a while, but I finally nailed it down: It's
Windows Defender. If I disable Defender, computer sleeps fine.

So, what's it doing? It's scheduled to scan once a week, Monday at
Noon. But the computer won't hibernate for more than a few minutes
without waking up, and never goes to sleep on it's own.

I don't use any other protection, so I would rather let Defender do
it's job. I just can't figure out why it won't let my computer
sleep!!

Computer used to sleep fine, so I assume something got changed in
Defender, perhaps by me, perhaps not.....

Does anyone know of a setting in here somewhere that would let my poor
PC sleep??

Thanks, all!

Mike
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[Mikey the Quick]

Mikey the Quick;495006 Wrote:












Hi Mike,

Check in Task Scheduler to see if Windows Defender is set to wake the
computer up.

Thanks for the reply, Shawn....

No, that was NOT checked.

Now, for some reason, the computer will not sleep even if Defender is
disabled. I guess I'll disable everything that has to do with the
Internet, and see what happens.....rrrrr......

Thanks again!

Mike
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