Keyboard wakes computer from sleep


  1. margrave
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    Windows 10 x64
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    Keyboard wakes computer from sleep


    I have a Logitech wireless keyboard and a conventional USB keyboard attached (Win 7).
    Touching any key on either keyboard will wake the computer. But I don't want that.

    In device manager I see three keyboards. (Why three instead of two?)
    - HID Keyboard Device
    - HID Keyboard Device
    - Logitech HID-compliant Unifying Keyboard

    In device manager each one of those has a Power Management tab.
    In each case the box called "Allow this device to wake the computer" is NOT checked.

    So why does the computer wake up when I press a key?
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  3. Brink
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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    Hello margrave, :)

    You could use the tutorial below to help get the ID of the keyboard waking the computer.

    Devices - See Devices that are able to Wake Up the Computer

    Afterwards, you can use the tutorial below to see if it may disable the keyboard from waking the PC.

    Devices - Allow or Prevent to Wake Up Computer
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  4. margrave
    Posts : 318
    Windows 10 x64
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    The only thing powercfg showed was the HID mouse.

    But yet touching the KEYBOARD wakes up the computer.
    Well, the keyboard and mouse are part of a Logitech pair. Maybe that's why Windows cannot distinguish.

    Anyway ... in Device Manager I shut off power-wakeup for the mouse and now the keyboard does not wake it up.

    Thanks.
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  6. Brink
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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    Great news. :)
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