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How to stop your mouse from waking your Windows PC

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Tuesday June 1, 2010

When your

computer sleeps

, it can easily be woken up by a movement of the mouse. If you're sick of your local four-legged friends nudging the mouse and waking the computer up, or even if you have a tendency to bump the computer desk and wake it up yourself, we have a solution for you. You can set Windows to

sleep through mouse movements

so that the

mouse won't wake the computer

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Show Notes

- Click on Start and then on Control Panel.

- In Control Panel, click on Hardware and Sound.

- Under Devices and Printers, click on Mouse.

- Now click on the Hardware tab and select your mouse.

- Click on Properties.

- Now click on Change settings.

- Here, you'll see a checkbox next to Allow this device to wake the computer.

- Uncheck the box, click OK, click OK again and you're done.

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