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The task scheduler reports that no tasks have run for the past seven days. There are things listed in the active task list, I have disabled some like Adobe and Google updater. The system log reports through the Power Troubleshooter event that the system has woken up several times in the past...

I will do that tonight and report back. The most frusturating part of this whole thing is that stupid "Wake Source Unknown" message I am getting in the power log, whats the point of it if it can't even tell what's causing it to not stay asleep?

How do I check everything in the Windows 8 task scheduler? I bring it up and it looks like this Do I need to search through the whole library listing to see if anything is scheduled or would it be listed right on the main page there?

It woke up. Nothing plugged in, NIC disabled, and it woke up. Pushed the power button to put it to sleep again last night at 11. By 6 this morning it was awake again.

I am going to need a young priest and an old priest. It's the only way I am going to keep this thing from waking up.

Okay so here is where I am now, I just disabled the built in audio and network port on the motherboard, put W8 into hibernation, and unplugged everything but the power cord. It's just a case sitting at an angle from where it normally is and nothing else but the power. Now we wait to see when it...

There is nothing in the scheduler, at least that I could find. Should I be looking through the scheduler library or just on the top tab? Anyway, PC is still waking up. I have to now shut it down fully to keep it from powering on. So far nothing I have done has been able to stop it. Both...

I don't have Office installed but I will look at the scheduler to see if anything is in there that could be causing this. Haven't looked there yet.

Yesterday I unplugged everything from the PC, even the network wire from the router and there is no wireless card in there. At 10:27 it popped back to life. Again the reason for the wake was listed as "Unknown" in the system log. WHAT IS THIS MAGIC THAT IS WAKING UP MY PC!?!

That also has been turned off for some time now. Why wouldnt the log tell me anything? Unknown is a pretty weak answer for Windows to report what is waking it up. I have also checked the bios, all the wake timers in there are turned off.

Thats the command I ran, the one that lists what can wake up the PC. Mine comes back saying nothing can and then in the system log it says wake source is "Unknown"

I'll check those when I get home tonight, but it's a wireless mouse and keyboard. Even when I have turned them both off and unplugged the usb receiver from the machine, it still wakes up. Wouldn't that prevent any signal from making it back to the system?

I have tried all the basic troubleshooting and I just cannot figure this out. I have checked the Windows system logs. The power trouble shooter says Wake Source "Unknown" I have turned off the "Allow this computer to wake up for updates" settings. I have run the command line stuff to find...

Having the idea of doing eightforums just like sevenforums was pretty smart, I replaced the seven with eight to see if it would and here I was. Maybe it is because the original account was left as a Microsoft account? The steps I took were to install Windows, set up my usual Live account as...

I always liked using a non admin account to (help a little bit) protect against spyware and Trojans and all of that. Now that I have W8 and linked to my Microsoft account I was going to do the same thing but it is not letting me. W8 was installed and when I logged in for the first time using my...