"Charlie Tame" wrote:

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> Yes, this is another problem with Microsoft's "We have control"
> philosophy, albeit an unintentional one.
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> I would advise that you change the time to one where the machine is
> likely to be opened up and maybe on the charger. If you turn updates off
> you will stop normal updates but not the "Stealth" updates that
> Microsoft have begun to perform. Since Microsoft don't really want to
> talk about these we have no idea what time they may take place, so we
> just have to "Hope" they either occur when the machine is on or else
> respect the time settings for ordinary updates.
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My assumption was correct: Automatic Windows update was the one awakening my
laptop from hibernation, since I changed the setting to “check for updates
but let me choose whether to download and install them” the laptop did not
awake at 3:00 in the morning like it had being doing several nights in a row.
I think Automatic Updates must have been updated itself recently to have this
feature, has I never noticed this behavior before.

How would this update setting be different – in terms of received update
contents – from the setting “Install Updates Automatically (recommended)”.
What are those "Stealth" updates ? I never heard about them. Can you point me
to information about that ?