Stop Your Mouse From Waking Up Your Computer

8 Comments on Stop Your Mouse From Waking Up Your Computer

• On 11/26/2008 at 9:55 am Sanches Mexicano said:

  Thanks a lot. My mouse would randomly float to the left because its basically the first laser mouse ever made and it would constantly wake my computer up.

• On 12/08/2008 at 11:48 pm Marc said:

  Brilliant! Thank you

• On 01/11/2009 at 10:16 pm mike said:

  there is no power management tab on mine but thx

• On 05/05/2009 at 3:35 am Michael said:

  Thanks so much i've been trying to find the fix for that for a long time you saved me a lot of hassel!!

• On 11/13/2009 at 10:36 pm Johnathan said:

  Yes this does indeed work thanks for the article. My network adapter was also waking up the computer on network activity.
  
  You can manage these devices from the control pannel and find the offenders and prevent them from waking up the computer.
  
  I went to: start / control panel / System and Sercurity / System / Device Manager / Mice and other pointing devices
  Double click on the mice and network adapter if necessary, select the power management tab, and deselect "Allow this device to wake up the computer"

• On 11/25/2009 at 9:55 am Pim said:

  My mouse doesn't have a Power Management tab. My network adapter does, but not my mouse. And it's an optical mouse, so even switching the lights on or off activates it.
  Anybody have any ideas?

• On 08/03/2010 at 1:31 pm Sean said:

  Thanks for the tip, however my mouse will still wake the computer if clicked, not if moved. Don't know if this is normal?

• On 12/07/2010 at 12:48 am Bryce said:

  For windows 7 you
  
  1) click on start
  2)type mouse
  3)Click Mouse
  4)click thae hardware tab
  5)Click the mouse
  6)click properties
  7) click Change settings
  8) Click the power managment tab
  9)Uncheck "allow this device to wake computer
  
  
  I hope this helps guys