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Windows Update waking up notebook from Hibernation

Discussion in 'Windows Vista' started by Jorge Domingos, Oct 15, 2009.

  1. Jorge Domingos

    Jorge Domingos Guest

    It is possible for the Windows Update to wake up my notebook from
    hibernation - even with the screen lid closed - and do the updates?

    This happened last night during my sleep, to my surprise.

    Thanks
     
    Jorge Domingos, Oct 15, 2009
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  3. Tim Slattery

    Tim Slattery Guest

    Jorge Domingos <jorge.cefims@gmail.com> wrote:
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    >It is possible for the Windows Update to wake up my notebook from
    >hibernation - even with the screen lid closed - and do the updates?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

    Not from hibernation, no. When your computer hibernates, it writes the
    contents of RAM to the disk and turns itself off. It's possible to
    have it turn itself on using wake-on-LAN, I suppose. Your computer
    would have to support it, and it would have to be turned on in the
    BIOS. Even if those conditions were met, I don't think WU uses such a
    strategy (but I don't know for sure).
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    >This happened last night during my sleep, to my surprise.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

    Could the machine have been sleeping, rather than hibernating?

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    Tim Slattery
    Slattery_T@bls.gov
     
    Tim Slattery, Oct 15, 2009
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