Windows 10 machine keeps waking from sleep

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This has been a source of irritation for many recently.  Simply disabling wake timers and disabling the Windows Update service is no longer enough to keep Microsoft from waking your machine from sleep mode to carry out maintenance and install updates.  It looks like this was introduced as an update sometime in 2018 and affects Windows 10 1607, 1703 and 1709.  Fortunately there are a number of steps you can take to stop Microsoft meddling with your machine and leaving it running all night costing you larger electrical bills.

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