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[greenraven]

My desktop PC keeps turning itself on for no reason... Does anybody know why? This isn't a new thing I'm just fed up having to get up in the middle of the night to turn it off.

P.S. I have researched this countless times and tried tons of fixes so don't be offended if I say "tried that, it didn't work". But please do suggest ideas!!!

Ghosts, clearly it's ghosts.

Try booting it up in safe mode and then use Autoruns. It sounds like there might be some sort of freaky trojan or something. The nice thing about Autoruns is that unlike aggressively zealous anti-virus programs that cause collateral damage it leaves things in the hands of the user. You choose what dies when, no more having your games classified as "dangerous threats", I'm looking at you AVG. *shakes fist*

Aside from that you may want to crack open your machine and look around the power supply area. Might be a loose wire or something sparking a reboot. Kinda like when your car dies and you jump start it, you know?