Waketimer is keeping Win10 Laptop from going to sleep or shutting down

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T. Papesh

My laptop (HP Omen 15) recently got beat up (computer bag fell out of back of hotel van) and I think it was in hibernate after a Windows 10 update - but it never got the full restart completed. When I first tried to start it after the fall, it gave a hard disk error. I took the laptop apart and checked everything over. I pulled the HD and physically re-installed it into the machine.Now, the laptop starts and boots properly, but when I try to put the machine to sleep or when I try to shut the machine down using Win10 prompts - the machine wakes up again, immediately.I pulled the machine wake

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