Banning certain programs from using wake from sleep

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Published on 2009-11-21T11:08:46Z Indexed on 2010/04/04 12:03 UTC
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Is it possible to ban a particular program from waking up the computer from sleep on Windows 7. The media center update is becoming really irritating turning my computer on all the time.

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