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last year I looked at why some PCs keep locking the screen while you're trying to get things done and had folks say *their* PC has the opposite problem & keeps waking up: so I took a look at the different reasons that can happen, how to track down what's waking your PC and what you can do about it

https://www.askwoody.com/2026/what-to-do-when-your-pc-wont-stay-asleep/

  • Device Manager

  • powercfg

  • BIOS

  • Control Panel

  • PowerShell