{"id":752,"date":"2024-07-11T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/?p=752"},"modified":"2024-07-11T19:47:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T17:47:16","slug":"prevent-your-mouse-from-waking-up-sleeping-windows-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2024\/07\/11\/prevent-your-mouse-from-waking-up-sleeping-windows-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevent your mouse from waking up sleeping Windows PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My PC uses about the same amount of power if it’s turned off and if it’s in sleep mode (about 1W). Hence I started to use sleep more often, since the difference in time from wanting to work to being able to work is significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One annoying point, though, was that while I want to be able to wake my PC with the keyboard<\/strong>, I don’t want it to wake on every little mouse movement, since those simply happen due to vibrations by me walking around or the kids jumping nearby. Still, I don’t want to reach for the power-button since it’s harder to reach, hence I have enabled “Wake on USB” in BIOS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The easy solution for this is, that you need to disable “Allow this device to wake the computer”<\/strong> off for your mouse, but not for your keyboard in the Window Device Manager<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step-by-Step<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. Open Device Manager<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Identify your mouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3. Right-click and select “Properties”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Open the Power Management Tab and then un-check “Allow this computer to wake the computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My PC uses about the same amount of power if it’s turned off and if it’s in sleep mode (about 1W). Hence I started to use sleep more often, since the difference in time from wanting to work to being able to work is significant. One annoying point, though, was that while I want to … Continue reading “Prevent your mouse from waking up sleeping Windows PC”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,36,14],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-configuration","tag-howto","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}