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 isn’t a huge issue but I just wanted make sure it wasn’t some weird virus or something that snuck its way in on a mod or something
Is there any risk to messing with the powercfg?
Unlikely a virus, but not impossible. Just more likely to be microsoft up to their normal tricks.
You can certainly make trouble with powercfg, but doing ‘powercfg /lastwake’ is entirely informational.