One of the best power management features in Windows is slumber mode, a convenient fashion to salve power and reduce the habiliment and tear on your PC hardware while it isn't being used. Commonly, your mouse and keyboard are set by default to wake up Windows from sleep mode.

This isn't a problem for most people, but can be troublesome for certain people with a very sensitive mouse. Even slight vibrations can cause Windows to wake upwardly from sleep. Luckily, you can easily disable the mouse or whatever other USB device from waking Windows upwards.

In this commodity, I'll show you how to change the power settings for your mouse or USB device so that it won't interfere with Windows sleeping. For me, I just use my keyboard to wake up the reckoner, so I don't have to worry about pressing the ability button.

Stop Mouse from Waking PC

To start, become to Control Panel and click on Mouse. If you lot are in category view, click on Hardware and Sound and then click on Mouse under Devices and Printers.
mouse settings

In the Mouse Properties window, click on the Hardware tab and select your mouse from the list of devices. Unremarkably, at that place will merely be one mouse listed hither, but that will depend on the hardware you have connected to your computer. When y'all have selected your mouse from the list, click the Properties button.

mouse properties

In the 2ndProperties window for your mouse, click on the Change Settings button on the General tab.

second mouse properties

Finally, click the Ability Management tab and uncheck the Let This Device to Wake the Computer box. Click the OK button and click OK on all the other open up windows besides. From at present on, you cannot wake up Windows from sleep mode past clicking a mouse button or moving the mouse around.

allow device to wake computer

Some loftier-cease mice, like gaming mice, accept high polling rates and high DPI, which means even the tiniest of movements will be detected and cause your reckoner to wake upwards. Fixing this setting will prevent that from happening. Note that you can also get to this setting by clicking on Start and then typing in Device Manager.

device manager

Expand Mice and other pointing device and so correct-click on the mouse and choose Properties.

hid compliant mouse

This will get you to the aforementioned dialog with the Ability Management tab as shown higher up. To prevent other USB devices from waking your computer, simply right-click on them, choose Backdrop and get to the ability tab. For example, you can as well forbid the keyboard from waking your computer or the network card too.

keyboard power management

If yous have a wireless keyboard/mouse and there is a USB transmitter attached to your estimator, you lot volition also demand to disable this choice for that device besides. It should show upwardly under Keyboards. If nothing else other than HID Keyboard Device shows up, then just disable it for that also.

Missing Ability Management Tab

In some cases, you might not see a Ability Management tab for some or all of your USB devices. In add-on, sometimes the Allow this device to wake the computer box is grayed out and you lot can't check or uncheck it.

If you are missing the Power Management tab or the box is grayed out, you lot need to go into your reckoner BIOS and make sure information technology supports wake over USB. You tin can normally tell this if at that place is an pick to enable USB Wake Back up or enable a sleep state college than S1 (ordinarily S3). The choice in the BIOS may exist chosen ACPI Append Blazon.

suspend type

You might also meet some options under Wake Upwards Event Setup related to resuming from S3/S4/S5 by mouse/keyboard/USB device. Make sure these are all enabled.

resume from s3

If you're having other sleep issues, brand sure to cheque out my post on troubleshooting Windows non going to sleep. If y'all have any questions, feel costless to mail a annotate. Bask!