Keyboard & Mouse won't wake PC from sleep

I had this problem on my HP Spectre and found a way to make it work. Perhaps this will for you, too.

Go to Device Manager. On the icon for Bluetooth (not any of the devices listed among the Bluetooth devices but the Bluetooth icon itself), right-click and click Properties from the pop-up menu. In the pop-up, select the Power Management tab. Uncheck the box for turning off the Bluetooth radio when the laptop goes to sleep.

Change your Power Mangement settings to "15 minutes" for the display when plugged in (leave to your preference for when on battery). Also, change to "Never" for the sleep option if the device is plugged in. This turns off the display after idle 15 minutes but keeps the hard drive awake. So it simulates sleep. It also keeps the Bluetooth radio turned on so it can detect movement from your wireless devices.

After making these changes, my Bluetooth mouse now wakes my laptop with just a wiggle. It takes it a moment but it works.

Note that I'm using my laptop as a replacement desktop, and it's plugged into a monitor full-time and on its power cord. So I use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse with it instead.

Hope that helps.

spokey said:

Well I tried everything here as well as a couple ideas from searching the MS site and nothing has solved this problem. I was beginning to think that I was crazy and this never worked.

In desperation I decided to restore back to 8.1 pro. I was never that happy with win10 anyway. Particularly the inability to control monthly updates (although it doesn't bother me on desktops sitting in the basement that I RDP in to ). Only took an hour or two. I have almost all personal stuff on an "I" drive so I just saved that to an external drive, restored to the 8.1 backup done just prior to the win10 upgrade and copied back the "I" drive. Of course there were a couple things I forgot like I have a "bin" directory on the system drive that had a couple updates. But those several items were easily restored by attaching the VHD file from the backup made on win10 right before the restore.

Anyway I'm happy to report my keyboard and mouse now wake the laptop up just fine. So I've actually shortened the time to go in to sleep mode and am back to flicking the escape key as I sit down. But thx for the suggestions and help.

gpt said:

I had this problem on my HP Spectre and found a way to make it work. Perhaps this will for you, too.

Go to Device Manager. On the icon for Bluetooth (not any of the devices listed among the Bluetooth devices but the Bluetooth icon itself), right-click and click Properties from the pop-up menu. In the pop-up, select the Power Management tab. Uncheck the box for turning off the Bluetooth radio when the laptop goes to sleep.

Change your Power Mangement settings to "15 minutes" for the display when plugged in (leave to your preference for when on battery). Also, change to "Never" for the sleep option if the device is plugged in. This turns off the display after idle 15 minutes but keeps the hard drive awake. So it simulates sleep. It also keeps the Bluetooth radio turned on so it can detect movement from your wireless devices.

After making these changes, my Bluetooth mouse now wakes my laptop with just a wiggle. It takes it a moment but it works.

Note that I'm using my laptop as a replacement desktop, and it's plugged into a monitor full-time and on its power cord. So I use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse with it instead.

Hope that helps.

It's been awhile, but I think I did the power setting stuff but for USB not Bluetooth. This is also a laptop but I use a USB keyboard and mouse. I'll stick with 8.1 on the this laptop. By the time I have to move on, I'll be buying a new machine and will make sure the bios has a startup setting. That's what I do on all my other machines that I run daily. Typically start them around 7:30 to 8:30am every day. So for example the basement desktop running win10 is up and humming if I want to say use quicken. Don't even have a monitor on that one as I always RDP in to use it.

Try going here Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings. then click on "change advanced power settings". Once in advanced setting scroll down to USB settings. click on USB settings, then USB selective suspend setting. Change Setting : to Disabled. Hope this works for you as it did for me