Wake On LAN - Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager - An advice

[Stalingrad]

Hi, I want to share with you a problem that i recently solved.

Those who use the Wake on Directed Packet, Wake on LAN, Wake on Link, Wake on Magic Packet from power off state ... and besides standard network drivers also installed a utility called - Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager like this:

may have problems after setting WakeOnLAN on a computer/notebook. If you go to Hibernate (sleep), and then unplug the internet cable and then plug it back (which is equivalent,for example if your connection is lost because of the ISP) then after about 5 minutes, the computer turns on itself(unexpectedly wakes up), though no one has sent any Magic Packet or other packets to the network card.

The problem is that after installing the Intel PROSet for Windows Device Manager ,the setting named => "Only allow management stations to bring the computer out of standby" in the "Power Management" tab is reset to default ,and you can't modify it from GUI interface because it doesn't exist there. Therefore we must edit the registry. Note that {4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\0010 here, in your case might be different. After this tweaks you should either reboot or disable / enable network adapter.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\0010]
"PnPCapabilities"=dword:00000120

;00000130 = CHECK [Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power]
;00000020 = CHECK [Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power] + [Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby]
;00000120 = CHECK [Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power] + [Allow this device to bring the computer out of standby] + [Only allow management stations to bring the computer out of standby]

;00000138 = UNCHECK ALL

Edited November 16, 2010 by Stalingrad