Beginning with Vista (on "vista-ready" hardware), Microsoft (and other "cooperating" vendors) can locate your computer, turn your PC on whenever they wish and do whatever they wish with it, updates, upgrades, "inspect" everything you have on it, downgrades (disabling software features), deleting files, etc. and then turn it off again (or hibernate it, if that was how it was before). The only way you can prevent it is to physically unplug the computer.        

I don't know whether  Microsoft would run defrag or not - that could be a configuration setting for off-hours defragging that activates when the PC is turned on.  If this is the case, you can change this setting to prevent the defrag, but if you are using a "vista-ready" machine, it will still be subject to being remotely powered-on, "inspected" and altered as long as it is plugged in.

AnnaSummers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Peter Shkabara 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 1:37 PM
Subject: computer turns itself on


I seem to have a ghost in my computer! Since January, I have been running
Windows 7 on my Shuttle PC. For the pasts number of weeks, the computer
seems to wake up at 3 a.m. on Thursday morning and runs defrag and Windows
updates. Normally, I hibernate my computer at night. I can't find anything
in the BIOS or Windows settings that would account for this. The defrag did
have a weekly setting, but I turned that off, yet the computer still wakes
up. Anyone else run into this? I don't understand how the wakeup call can be
initiated if the BIOS is not set to do so.

 

 

Peter Shkabara

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