WakeUp Settings for Standby

NTL1991

How can I set up settings for standby so you need to hit a key on the keyboard rather than move the mouse to wake it up... I want to do this because rather than shutting my PC off at night, I just put it to sleep, but in the middle of the night when someone walks across the room it wakes up. OS: Windows XP

Nick

JackTheStripper

Go into device manager, look at your mouse, go to the power management tab then look for the setting that lets the device take it out of standbye.

NTL1991

I cant find a power managment tab anywhere in my mouse thing... But I installed the drivers that came with the mouse and Keyboard: Logitech Wireless PS/2 Drivers

Slash

Try to use Mouse Control Panel, There you click Hardware, then Properties, then check what Steve said.

NTL1991

I dont have that... It's a custom Logitech Control Panel with Quick Setup, Pointers, Buttons, Motion, Cordless, and Devices all with nothing to do with power managment...

Slash

Why not to install default windows drivers?

Q

The mfgr ones are usually better (Or so I'm told, I haven't noticed a real difference (Or maybe I have))?

-Q

Slash

Usually but not always.
I have a 5 button mouse and I cannot bind 4 and 5 buttons in games when using drivers from manufactor.
They work when using default MS ones...

NTL1991

Logi's Control Panel tells me the Batery Condition, so that's why I use it... Right Now it's at Critical. Would rechargable have the same life or would I have to swap them ever day?

JackTheStripper

Rechargables are usually the same life, but sometimes they get longer lifespans. Or is it higher voltage..I'll have to get back on this.

But more or less, you won't notice a difference.

Bash

why not flip your mouse upside down? I did that for a while with my optical mouse, and before i had a password on my computer.

SurfinShell23

Probably not higher voltage...