Can you check in Event Logs / System to see what time the system is actually
waking up?

If it's windows update you should find entries like 'Windows Servicing is
setting package KB936824_2(Update) state to Install Requested(Install
Requested)'

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"DRT" <DRT@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> Yeah, I have mine set to "Automatically download updates but let me
> choose whether to install them". Does it do it at 3AM? There seems
> to be nothing in the dialog to indicate that but I guess it could be
> hard coded into Vista's auto-update system. I wish Vista would let
> me change that. I'd probably change it to run on a weekday
> afternoon like at lunchtime when I won't be on the notebook and I
> know the notebook will be powered on to do the update.
>
> I still think that *nothing* should be able to run in hibernate
> mode. It means the CPU and memory are active which defeats
> the purpose of hibernation.
>
> For the rest of the week, I'm going to hibernate my notebook as
> usual at night but unplug the notebook's battery! That way, it
> couldn't possibly power on! Its a shame this poor hibernation
> implementation forces me to do this though!
>
>
> Steve Easton wrote:[color=green]
>> I've just been told that Automatic updates runs at 3 AM.
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