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Any key on my keyboard turns on my PC and i have cats so this is really annoying, how can i stop my keyboard from doing this?
Keyboard turns on PC
- Thread starter Adam Harper
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photonboy
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- Jun 20, 2006
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Hi,
You have a few options to solve your problem:
#1 - Turn the PC completely OFF, not to Hibernate or Standby (may or may not work).
#2 - Disable the Keyboard/Mouse for turning on the PC in your motherboard BIOS:
- enter BIOS and look for an option related to starting with your Keyboard and disable that
#3 From within Windows:
Open the Device Manager, find the Keyboard and HID sections, then right-click all of them (multiple versions for some reason), then "properties"-> "power Management" and unclick the option that says:
"allow this device to wake the computer"
Should also apply to the MOUSE as well. I'm not sure how universally well this works but it did for me.
You have a few options to solve your problem:
#1 - Turn the PC completely OFF, not to Hibernate or Standby (may or may not work).
#2 - Disable the Keyboard/Mouse for turning on the PC in your motherboard BIOS:
- enter BIOS and look for an option related to starting with your Keyboard and disable that
#3 From within Windows:
Open the Device Manager, find the Keyboard and HID sections, then right-click all of them (multiple versions for some reason), then "properties"-> "power Management" and unclick the option that says:
"allow this device to wake the computer"
Should also apply to the MOUSE as well. I'm not sure how universally well this works but it did for me.
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