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Windows Wake Devices

You know what’s worse than waking up to your alarm clock every morning? Waking up to the sound of a hundred fans revving up, because your mouse or keyboard accidentally woke up your computer. – ChatGPT ish

PowerShell command to show all devices that are allowed to wake Windows from sleep:

powercfg /DEVICEQUERY wake_armed

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PowerShell command to show which device woke your Windows from last sleep:

powercfg /LASTWAKE

PowerShell command to disable device (needs admin permissions):

powercfg /DEVICEDISABLEWAKE "<device name>"

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