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This is possibly the so-called "Connected Standby" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstantGo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstantGo), an infamous Windows anti-f
by pizza234 5y ago
This is possibly the so-called "Connected Standby" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstantGo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstantGo), an infamous Windows anti-feature.
I believe, although I'm not 100% sure, that in addition to turning on the computer without the user consent, it also puts the machine in a strange state where it's neither on nor off.
According to the spec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstantGo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstantGo, it's allowed to suck up to 7.5% of battery every day. As a matter of fact, my Surface device would lose more than 5% every day, and I'd find odd periods of wakeup in the sleep log (when the machine was supposedly fully shutdown).
- buran77 5y agoMy old iMac was constantly waking from sleep for online tasks because of the (on by default) Power Nap feature introduced around the same time as InstantGo. By the time I paid any attention to it my HDD had ~500.000 head park cycles which also lead to its early demise. Ended up using it with an external SSD which was a massive boost in performance anyway.