Friday, February 05, 2010

Windows 7 refuse to sleep because mouse keeps waking it up. How to stop the mouse wake up?

Do you put your computer into sleep often ? Do you ever accidently touched the mouse and all the sudden find your computer just woke up ? Well to me I don’t purposely to put my computer into sleep often, but instead it sleeps by itself when I don’t use it for over 30 minutes. When that happens chances are I don’t really need to use thecomputer at the moment. But I often I ended up waking up the computer when I try to move around the stuff on my desk, that lead to the mouse to move and eventually lead to the computer to start waking up.

So here is how you can stop the mouse trigger your PC from sleep. This works on both Windows 7 and vista.

First go to start menu search "Mouse"

Click the first result under Control Panel

Go to Hardware tab > Double Click the mouse in the list > Power Management > Uncheck the "Allow this device to wake the computer"

You are done, once you have unchecked this option, you don’t have to worry about accidently touched your mouse while your computer is on sleep anymore.