Are there any valid reasons laptops turn on by themselves?
I just watched my mothers laptop turn on by itself and i could have sworn it was turned off (not hibernating)

@theNSA is watching you.
Actually that’s not normal, unless you have wake on lan enabled and someone’s sent a magic packet then I got no ideas

*X-Files theme starts playing*

@C0D4 that's the laptop she got for work, i don't see any reason this should be enabled. If even if it is enabled someone had to get into the wifi and decided to send a wakeonlan-packet for this. I can't explain this.

@theNSA you would like that, would you.

whenever power is connected my notebook starts up.

Some power on when power is connected, others can be set to power on on a schedule, and as mentioned WOL is possible, although less plausible.

I believe there may also be an option to wake from sleep/hibernate to do updates because windows.

Wake-On-Ring?

I used to have an issue where computer starts by itself and it was due to that BIOS option. I guess it doesn't work properly nowdays and is not even implemented on modern motherboards.

Probably on power on schedule to receive patches.

After an automatic update, windows just boots up and doesn't fucking turn off again. Happened to me twice. Poor laptop was turned on the whole night...