Windows 7: How to Prevent the Mouse from Waking your PC

Contributor Icon Contributed by Rob Rogers  
Tag Icon Tagged: Microsoft Windows 7  

It never fails, you finally get your PC off to sleep (mode) and you accidentally bump your mouse. Your computer is wide awake again and you have to go through all the steps again to put it back in sleep mode. By changing the default setting on your mouse, you can disable the device’s ability to wake your sleeping computer.

1. Click the Orb and open Control Panel.

2. Select Hardware and Sound.

3. Beneath Devices and Printers, select Mouse.

4. Click the Hardware tab.

5. Select your mouse from the listed devices.

6. Click the Properties button.

7. Click the Change settings button.

8. Click the Power Management tab.

9. Uncheck the Allow this device to wake the computer checkbox.

10. Click OK to close the device’s Properties window.

11. Click OK to close the Mouse Properties window.

 

5 Comments -


  1. Name said on December 18, 2009

    i have no ‘change settings’. i’m running windows 7 home premium x64. any alternatives? thanks

  2. Anonymous said on December 21, 2009

    thanks for share

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  3. Anonymous said on April 24, 2010

    awesome info thanks!!

  4. Anonymous said on July 13, 2011

    Add my Logitech mouse to select “Allow this device to wake the computer” is selected. I can not use my touchpad at all to log on to my computer, it was closed. If I uncheck this box, I will once again be able to use the touchpad or mouse, log on to my computer? I want to be able to use the mouse pad and selective.

  5. Anonymous said on July 17, 2011

    Thank you for telling me how to Prevent the Mouse from Waking my PC,I think it is very useful for me.

 

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