I've carefully read through this interesting post - having the same problem, obviously 
- and my problem may sound silly, but I don't get a "Power Management" tab on the 
device properties of my mouse or keyboard. How come?







On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 7:24 am, Dave wrote:

>This thread has been going on for years, but I just found it, and it helped me.

>

>I have a Dell Inspiron 5160. Everything was woking fine until I added, on the same 

>day, a Logitech MX610 wireless mouse and a Linksys wireless router. After I added 

>those, my laptop would not go to standby when I shut the top nor would the fan turn 

>off. I sent seven to eight hours trying to the fix the problem. I was on the phone 

>with my local ISP, Dell, and Linksys. I never suspected the mouse. Each person said 

>it was someone else's problem. Dell wanted me to wipe my hard drive and start from 

>scratch! How may hours would that take! So I kept playing around with my settings 

>and searching the web. I found this discussion link and did the following.

>

>I have Windows XP. I went to:

>

>Start > Control Panel > Mouse > Hardware (tab) and highlighted Logitech Mouse > 
Properties 

>> Power Management (tab) > de-selected "Allow this device to bring the computer 
out 

>of standby." I then shut my computer down for the night (because I had been using 

>it all day and it was hot - even with the fan running). Then next day all was back 

>to normal!

>

>Thanks!

>

>Dave 

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