Originally Posted by javacontour
Doesn't windows have some sort of event viewer? If so, has that been checked for messages as to why it's waking up?
A quick google search shows this as the first hit:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/63136-see-wake-source-windows-10-a.html
Edited to add, looks like I should have waited a bit, you found some of the same commands.
I hope you find the source...
Thanks for the tip ... but yeah I've searched high and low for a solution for days, and have tried half a dozen "solutions" that never worked.
Looks like the best bet at this point is to download and use a tool called 'PsTools' to be able to disable the "Update Orchestrator" settings, and follow the instructions of how to use PsTools to give super Admin rights so I could go into Task Scheduler and disable some of the "Wake the computer to run this task" settings.
However, from what I've read it sounds like changing that settings in Task Scheduler is not permanent, and it will revert itself back to checking the "Wake the computer to run this task" box somehow. Essentially, a Windows 10 machine is controlled very tightly by Microsoft and will revert some settings back to what Microsoft wants them to be, even if you've found a way to set them to what you want them to be. Big Brother lives in Windows 10.
Apparently, all this started after a Windows Update in the last year or so. Before that, people could go into Task Scheduler and change the "Wake the computer to run this task" settings with just user Administrator rights and the setting would stay set. If anyone reading this has a Windows 10 laptop,
make sure you shut it all the way down if you put it in a carry case. People have reported that they put it away in while in Sleep Mode, and it woke up and got super hot because it had no air circulation in the carry case.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pstools
Article about using PsTool to make the change in Task Scheduler by giving elevated user privileges. A ton of stuff can be found on all this with Google.
https://tapiovalli.wordpress.com/tag/updateorchestrator/