Vista Media Center (MCE) keeps waking up
Submitted by alastair on Thu, 19/03/2009 - 12:54Our Vista Media Center machine was continually waking up a few minutes after it was put to sleep. This lead to higher power bills, and higher greenhouse gas emissions. To find out the cause of the last wakeup request, you can execute the following command from a Command Prompt:
powercfg /lastwake
Unfortunately, this didn't give any useful information for me, so I took the following approach: