Know which devices can wake up your PC from Sleep mode
Is your PC waking up automatically when in Sleep mode, and wondering which device is waking the system up? Here is a command which gets the list of devices that are configured to wake the computer up.
Open a Command Prompt window (cmd.exe) and type:
Press {ENTER}
If you find a device in the list that may be causing the problem, open Device Manager and disable the wake up option for the device. This can be done by double-clicking the corresponding device in Device Manager, clicking Properties and clicking on the Power Management tab.

Note: You can open Device Manager via Control Panel, or by running the command devmgmt.msc.
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