Computer Learning

[Zorax]

Thanks. You always liked rockin the equipment. Although I have win 10 home, yeah I know.

On #1. Do you use a wireless mouse? Even if not, it sounds like you have a 'wake on' whatever checked. Try and find all your device settings, even the nvidia and see if any 'save battery power' or USB device turn on blah blah. Sometimes if these are set, windows will not turn off because of the flag.The network card has 'wake on lan' which probably should never be on anyhow, but a sliim chance of tripping up win.

As well as display settings console. I seem to remember something there...

I see this on my win10 settings...
Settings>
Power and sleep>
Additional power settings>
change plan setttings>
Change advanced power settings> ... A separate window pops up with a full list of devices using power/sleep.

If you've been here, make sure to look again at each item. I have high performance. The balanced is supposedly for laptops and such.

Oh and even more super basic, I think there is still settings even in new bios's (if they're called that any more) that also has sleep and battery settings. The bios is still the thing that comes up first but windows is supposed to recognize and renumerate those basic things during the hand over but sometimes ... not.

2. Another stab at the ether. Do you use firefox? Almost doesn't matter now which browser, but the top, what, three? They all load extra instances of themselves, supposedly to give us faster browsing, but also to be more protective of crashing and I guess security.

Do a three finger salute to task manager and see how many processes your browser is using. Usually under 'apps' and below under background processes. My firefox eats plenty of memory and firefox is still not releasing memory like it's supposed to. Even closing it out. While you're in TM, look down that list and see if you don't recognize something that is for sure not MS. There's really nothing you can do about shutting down a service in TM if it is a service host. Those are usually protected and will complain you will explode your computer into a billion pieces if you try.

I like a program called Sysinternals Suite, https://www.techspot.com/downloads/4680-sysinternals-suite.html. It's got boatloads of programs. All safe, probably all from MS.
It has more than a few that will show whats running. Can really get your geek on with this suite. I've had that program since it was independent and I think MS bought them out.

Also on #2. Windows update has some processes which I think are still not rectified like update module loader or whatever. It uses memory and processor power and just spins.
I see my drive light go solid for a few seconds, I bring up MT and end the task. I do not like update running all the time. It's been in the last three or four updates plus a major one that people have been reporting issues with updates. Just an idea to throw at you.

GL.