PC wakes up randomly and sometimes logs in after being put to sleep
Built a gaming PC back in 2018 (windows 10, GTX1080, i7, eset security).
For the past year or so it wakes up every now and then and for a few months it started waking up to my logged in desktop screen. Hasnt happened for about a month or so but it still eakes up even with my mouse and keyboard disconnected. I don't do any tormenting or anything sketchy. It's a really clean machine built for gaming, YouTube, office work stuff. I don't visit any "low brow" sites (that's what my tablet (not connected to the PC) is for). It didn't start happening after any specific download that I can remember.
Anyway, I can't find anything relevant online that helps me so I figured I'd ask here if anyone knows what this is about.
It is windows, so your deep debug/fix options are limited. I've had some luck with the 'powercfg' commands disabling sleep/wake for some sources.
The other suggestion, wake timers, is probably your problem, since windows wants to stay out of your way, and in their mind that means to wake up at 3am to take updates.. what could go wrong?
Whenever I wake it normally, it always opens to password input but every now and then I pass by the room and notice it's lights are on when I know for sure I put it to sleep and sometimes when I wiggle the mouse to take it off screen saver, it's logged in. Never really messed with any settings in that respect but I'll dig deeper there
I had a similar problem. Tried a bunch of resolutions, fixes, or configs and none of them worked. Just bothered by it one day where I had just put the box to sleep and I just barely nudged my desk, wireless mouse lights up because it detected movement, box wakes up. My overly sensitive mouse was picking up shaking and waking up the computer because of the mouse input.
Windows, by default, doesn't fully power off when you tell it to shut down. Windows Update can wake it up and install updates, and then leave the computer running when it's done.
I believe there are some registry and/or group policy settings to disable this feature, but I'm not sure specifically what they are.
An option in the meantime is to hold down the left shift key while as you tell Windows to shut down. This should force a full power-off.
Possibly doing updates? I know something along the lines of "use my credentials to finish updating after reboot" is an option, but I was pretty sure that just got past the "We're getting you PC ready for you" screen & dropped you back to the login screen