How to enable Wake-On-Lan on Windows 10 using PowerShell

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Settings for Wake-On-Lan

0. Enabling it in BIOS/UEFI

1. Disabling fast startup and/or hibernation

Turning off fast startup:

New-ItemProperty "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Power" -Name HiberbootEnabled -PropertyType DWord -Value 0 -Force

Disabling hibernation, which disables fast startup too (?): POWERCFG /HIBERNATE OFF

2. NIC Power Management

2.1: Checking "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" ✅

$Adapter = Get-NetAdapter -Physical | Where-Object { $_.PhysicalMediaType -eq "802.3" } | Get-NetAdapterPowerManagement | Where-Object { $_.AllowComputerToTurnOffDevice -ne "Unsupported" }
$Adapter.AllowComputerToTurnOffDevice = "Enabled"
$Adapter | Set-NetAdapterPowerManagement

2.2: Checking "Allow this device to wake the computer" ✅

$PnPDeviceID = Get-NetAdapter -Physical | Where-Object { $_.PhysicalMediaType -eq "802.3" }
  | Select-Object -First 1 -ExpandProperty PnPDeviceID # only getting first one here for illustration...

Get-CimInstance -ClassName MSPower_DeviceWakeEnable -Namespace root/wmi
  | Where-Object { $_.InstanceName -Match [regex]::escape($PnPDeviceID) }
    | Set-CimInstance -Property @{Enable=$True}

2.3: Checking "Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer" ✅

$PnPDeviceID = Get-NetAdapter -Physical | Where-Object { $_.PhysicalMediaType -eq "802.3" }
  | Select-Object -First 1 -ExpandProperty PnPDeviceID # only getting first one here for illustration...

Get-CimInstance -ClassName MSNdis_DeviceWakeOnMagicPacketOnly -Namespace root/wmi
  | Where-Object { $_.InstanceName -Match [regex]::escape($PnPDeviceID) }
    | Set-CimInstance -Property @{EnableWakeOnMagicPacketOnly=$true}

3. Advanced NetAdapter Properties

• EnablePME (Intel also calls it "Wake on Magic Packet from power off state"): Enabled
• Wake on Magic Packet: Enabled
• Wake on Pattern Match: Enabled
• Energy Efficient Ethernet: Disabled? (mentioned in some instructions e.g. by DELL - for me it didn't matter)

$Adapter | Set-NetAdapterPowerManagement -WakeOnMagicPacket Enabled
$Adapter | Set-NetAdapterPowerManagement -WakeOnPattern Enabled
$Adapter | Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -RegistryKeyword EnablePME -RegistryValue 1
# wasn't needed for me:
$Adapter | Set-NetAdapterAdvancedProperty -RegistryKeyword EEELinkAdvertisement -RegistryValue 0