How to disable wake from sleep for keyboard, USB, etc????

[cormandy]

Hello,
 
I have a Thinkstation D10 6427-46G running Windows Vista 64-bit.
 
Is there a way to prevent the computer from waking from sleep when the USB keyboard is pressed?
 
The reason is that I prefer to put my computer to sleep instead of shutting it down; however, the computer is often unintentionally awakened from sleep mode when the keyboard is bumped, either by myself, my children or sometimes the cleaner.

I would prefer to have it such that the computer can only be awakened by pressing the power button.

Thanks, Chris

PS Also experiencing the problem of the fans not throttling down when PC wakes from sleep.  Problem is intermittent, but highly annoying!   I have read the other posts regarding the same issue, BIOS is up-to-date and it still happens.  Will contact Lenovo directly and post my experiences here...

[erik SuperMod]

welcome to the forum!

regarding waking from sleep, the only method i know to prevent the keyboard from waking your system is to disconnect the keyboard.   there might be an options in the BIOS somewhere to control this but i don't recall seeing one and am not able to reboot my system right now to check.

regarding the fans not throttling down, there are two ways to fix it.   the first is to wake the system using the power button instead of the keyboard.   the second is to plug the keyboard into a rear USB port instead of a front.   both of these tricks have worked for other users with success.

[cormandy · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I have found a solution to the keyboard/mouse "wake from sleep" problem, which transpires to be a Windows Vista setting.

Solution to disable computer from waking from sleep when keyboard or mouse used when using Vista is as follows:

Right-click "computer" and select "Manage"

Click on "Device Manager"

Expand "keyboards" entry in right-hand pane

Right-click on "HID Keyboard Device" and select properties

Click "Power Management" tab

Uncheck "Allow this device to wake the computer"

Click OK

Repeat for mouse

Expand "Mice and other pointing devices" entry in right-hand pane

Right-click on "HID-compliant mouse" and select properties

Click "Power Management" tab

Uncheck "Allow this device to wake the computer"

Click OK

Close device manager

Put computer/OS to sleep

It should now not be possible to wake the computer when clicking the mouse  or the keyboard!

Yay!  I have a messy desk that I also use as an electronics workbench and it was driving me mad when I would unintentionally wake the computer when bumping the keyboard.  Or when my children would unintentionally wake the computer.  Or when the cleaner would unintentionally wake the computer....

- cormandy