Windows 11 will not wake from sleep via scheduled task

Paul in PSL 0 Reputation points
2025-01-29T20:02:14.5666667+00:00

I recently built a new machine with Windows 11 and have created several tasks to run a utility to backup multiple users accounts and shared data to a NAS drive. I am trying to use the task scheduler to accomplish this. I have created the tasks and I can run them manually from task scheduler and they work just fine. However when I put the machine to sleep the scheduled task will not wake the computer.

This is the setup I have:

Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX motherboard

Intel I7 12700 cpu

32 gig Gskill ram

1TB M.2 Samsung SSD

The tasks are setup as follows:

General - Run whether the user is logged in or not

Run with the highest privileges

Trigger - Weekly at 6:00 am every Friday Enabled

Actions - Start a program "C:......\myprogram"

Conditions - Power - Wake the computer to run this task

Start the task if its on AC power (this setting doesnt make a difference)

Start only if the following network connection is available Any connection (doesnt make a difference)

Settings - allow the task to be run on demand

Stop if task runs longer than 3 days

If the task does not end force it to stop

The output from powercfg is as follows

The following sleep states are available on this system:

Standby (S3)

The following sleep states are not available on this system:

Standby (S1)

    The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Standby (S2)

    The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Hibernate

    Hibernation has not been enabled.

Standby (S0 Low Power Idle)

    The system firmware does not support this standby state.

Hybrid Sleep

    Hibernation is not available.

Fast Startup

    Hibernation is not available.

Allow wake timers enabled

HPET is enabled and is using the std driver

BIOS and OS updates are current

This worked perfectly in Windows 10 on the old hardware. I have been searching for about a month for a soluiton to this, hope someone can help.

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Paul in PSL 0 Reputation points
    2025-01-30T13:45:32.89+00:00

    Power Setting GUID: bd3b718a-0680-4d9d-8ab2-e1d2b4ac806d (Allow wake timers)

      GUID Alias: RTCWAKE
    
      Possible Setting Index: 000
    
      Possible Setting Friendly Name: Disable
    
      Possible Setting Index: 001
    
      Possible Setting Friendly Name: Enable
    
      Possible Setting Index: 002
    
      Possible Setting Friendly Name: Important Wake Timers Only
    
    Current AC Power Setting Index: 0x00000001
    
    Current DC Power Setting Index: 0x00000000
    

    I cant seem to find gpedit.msc since I am running WIn 11 home


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