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Thread ID: 138273	2014-11-01 22:06:00	Somthing is changing my settings in Power Options	Vince (406)	Press F1

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1387493	2014-11-01 22:06:00	Windows 7. Have run many anti malware programs and removed unnecessary programs and PUPS with no effect. Every day or two the setting "Allow Wake Timers" gets changed from "Disable" to "Enable". Last night I set it to "Disable" at about midnight, clicked apply checked that disable was still showing, clicked OK. and put the computer to sleep. The computer was awake when I got up! There are no scheduled tasks due to run at night. What could be causing this behaviour? I just looked and the setting has changed in the last 2 hours!	Vince (406)
1387494	2014-11-02 18:27:00	Check the settings in the BIOS and disable it there.	pctek (84)
1387495	2014-11-06 17:15:00	There is nothing in the BIOS, but uncle Google led me to a site that suggested it might be a thumb drive. I unplugged the thumb drive and the computer has stopped waking in the night.	Vince (406)
1387496	2014-11-13 22:22:00	There is nothing in the BIOS, but uncle Google led me to a site that suggested it might be a thumb drive. I unplugged the thumb drive and the computer has stopped waking in the night. Well, that worked for a while... The trouble is that I wake when the Computer does, and that annoys me. I searched the internet some more and found,_ "Remove_Allow_Wake_Timers.reg", which does exactly that; it removes "Allow Wake Timers" from the registry. Just remember to backup the registry first, like I didn't You can find the utility here,_ www.eightforums.com	Vince (406)
1387497	2014-11-17 08:38:00	Finally found the culprit. ?!! Free Countdown Timer was set to make a sound on the hour. I got so used to it that I forgot that it was there.	Vince (406)
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