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I had a Logitech wired keyboard and a Logitech M510 wireless mouse connected to my Windows 10 PC (1909 version). In the device manager under "Keyboards", it had the following devices listed: a "HID Keyboard Device" and a "Logitech HID-compliant unifying keyboard". And it had the exact same names for the 2 items under the "Mice and other pointing devices" section, except the word Keyboard was replaced with word Mouse. I can't remember which item under the keyboards section had the "Allow this device to wake computer" option checked in the Power Management tab of the properties window, but only the keyboard was waking up the computer from sleep when any key on it was pressed. The mouse couldn't wake it up, as desired.

Now, after I replaced the wired Logitech keyboard with a Logitech MK320 wireless keyboard, The Logitech M510 mouse is waking up the computer, not the keyboard at all. I tried different combinations of activating the "Allow this device to wake computer" option for both keyboard devices listed while leaving this option disabled for both mouse devices, but the mouse is still waking the PC, not the keyboard. Clicking a button on the mouse or just simply moving it causes my PC to wake up. I want the keyboard only to wake up the PC, not the mouse. What's the fix for this? Thanks.

Edit: I forgot to mention that no matter how I configured the devices in the device manager after making the switch with the keyboards, the mouse always woke up the PC, regardless of whether or not the keyboard woke up the PC also at the same time (both devices woke up PC with some configurations). My goal was to have only the keyboard wake up the PC, not the mouse.

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  • That unit has a unifying receiver, so the result you are getting is completely normal.
    – anon
    Commented Apr 23, 2020 at 13:10
  • @John What do you mean? I didn't use the unifying receiver that came with the wireless keyboard. I just added the wireless keyboard to the unifying receiver that I was already using for the wireless mouse.
    – Raj Narayanan
    Commented Apr 23, 2020 at 13:15
  • The mouse will use the unifying receiver you already have. You should be using the new Receiver.
    – anon
    Commented Apr 23, 2020 at 13:17
  • @John Ok. I'll try using both receivers at the same time.
    – Raj Narayanan
    Commented Apr 23, 2020 at 13:20
  • As I suggested,use the unifying receiver that came with the new combination. Remove the old receiver, plug in the new receiver and restart the computer
    – anon
    Commented Apr 23, 2020 at 13:21

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Had similar problem. Wireless mouse was waking up PC even though wake up setting was disabled in the power management. Also I didn't have shared receiver problem, as I have wired keyboard.

But disabling "Allow this device to wake computer" on one of the device listed under keyboard solved the problem. Funny :) Left the setting on for another device in same listing, to ensure keyboard is able to wake up the PC. You need to do bit of hit and try to check which device you need to change the setting for.

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