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While getting sleep to work reliably with windows 7 is much easier than it was in the days of windows XP, it still can take a little bit of work to get the settings rights. One thing that makes it easier is knowing when the computer went to sleep and then when, and what woke it up. There are several methods to accomplish this task. I will be covering three in this guide. The first is to run powercfg -lastwake from a comand prompt, second is to create a custom view in event viewer and the last method is to use StandbyTracker, a tool created by Andrew Van Til, which will log the sleep events as well as log the results of powercfg -lastwake on each resume. This guide will cover each in that order.  First up is using the command prompt...