I would shut down the laptop after finishing with it for the day. That would prevent it from being active during the night. Dell's Modern Standby FAQ has three suggestions to prevent such activity during sleep: 1. Before you close the Laptop lid, disconnect the AC adapter. This forces the Laptop into "Network Disconnected" Standby mode. Then close the Laptop lid. Now the Laptop is not able to receive and install Windows Updates. 2.* Open Control Panel- Power Options- Change Plan Settings- Change advanced power settings* Open the Network connectivity in Standby* Change both On battery and Plugged in to Disable 3. Turn the Laptop off (shut down).
I have an Inspiron 14 5410 laptop (not 2-in-1) and I'm really pleased with it, however it has a really, really loud cooling fan that comes on randomly (even when the computer isn't overheating) and stays on for ages. It's normally not much of a problem but last night the fan woke me up at 4AM (computer hadn't been used since 11PM) and kept turning on and off for ages. It didn't stop until I had updated, restarted and shut down my laptop. Does anyone else have this issue or know how to fix it? Thank you very much.
Inspiron 14 5410 Fan very noisy