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Laptop wakes up when I unplug/power off any usb devices

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Mar 15, 20263631 views
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I am wondering if there is a way to change this functonality in windows - everytime an external usb device powers off or if I unplug it, my laptop wakes up from sleep, which is really annoying. This is on Windows XP. It can be a disk, a mouse,... Type doesn't seem to matter.

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Fix for: Laptop wakes up when I unplug/power off any usb devices

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I had the same issue with Windows 7 and my mouse. It turns out, that you have to go to the device manager, find the device (in my case it was the mouse) and turn off the option "Allow this device to wake up computer". If you have the same problem wi…

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