My Win 11 PC won't wake up from sleep using the keyboard or mouse.

Anonymous
2023-01-25T16:43:18+00:00

My Win 11 PC can only wake up by pressing the power button. How do make it able to wake up using the keyboard or mouse?

I have checked the option that says "Enable wake up using mouse or keyboard" somewhere, but it doesn't make any difference.

My PC is updated to the latest system update.

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Anonymous
2023-04-11T11:52:48+00:00

My Win 11 PC can only wake up by pressing the power button. How do make it able to wake up using the keyboard or mouse?

I have checked the option that says "Enable wake up using mouse or keyboard" somewhere, but it doesn't make any difference.

My PC is updated to the latest system update.

I believe I found the solution, it is a Windows power-saving policy where USB power is cut off when the computer goes into sleep mode, so the keyboard receiver will not work, and the computer will not wake up as a result. You just need to disable this feature.

Settings > Energy e Battery > Energy Recommendations > Stop usb devices when my screen is off to save battery ----> Turn Off.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-05-01T20:52:09+00:00

    My computer upgraded to Windows 11, yes. I haven't used it in several months. I used to have this problem with waking it up, suddenly it'd wake up. This is not happening thus time around. I hit wake up on my keyboard, even sleep, then wake up, power, the Windows icon on the keyboard and Esc. Nothing is working. I need to wake it up, am needing serious help thus time! Help!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-04-26T20:40:51+00:00

    The latest windows update caused this problem for me. I went back to the day before the update, did a restore and all was fine.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-04-26T19:46:42+00:00

    cannot find this path on a W11 desktop Settings > Energy e Battery > Energy Recommendations > Stop usb devices when my screen is off to save battery ----> Turn Off.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-07T17:44:18+00:00

    Why not just close the entire website and send all traffic to your recommended site?

    Why don't you do the detailed search and repost it here?

    Why answer this post if you don't even know the answer?

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