Windows 10: Computer stopped waking on mouse clicks

I've always restarted my computer before going to bed at night. Then it goes to sleep after three hours. When I get on it in the morning, I double click the mouse, and it's up and running in a few seconds.

Except today, the mouseclicks didn't wake the computer. Yesterday they did. Today they didn't.

It's not Windows updates. The last updates to my computer 8/11. There was a security definitions update to Microsoft Defender on 9/7, but I doubt that affected the wake-on-mouse.

It's not the "normal" settings - device manager > mice > properties > power management shows "allow this device to wake this computer" checked and "allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" unchecked.

It's not the mouse. Not sure how to test it, but its movement, both buttons, and the scroll wheel work.

And it wasn't a onetime thing. I used the start menu power settings to put the computer to sleep this morning, and again, the mouse wouldn't wake it.

What else can I try?

Waking the computer with the mouse is the easiest way to wake it, but if for some reason I can't make that work, what are other easy ways to wake it?

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I had already set the network driver (Nvidia) to not wake. At your suggestion, In power options I changed the Allow wake timers setting to Disable. Sorry to report, the mouse still wakes the computer. I do appreciate your help.

 

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I have mine setup to wake from sleepmode with any key stroke or mouse click.

 

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Hi,

It's always good to preserve your device's power by putting it on sleep mode. If your mouse is waking up the device, we suggest following the steps below as another workaround:

• Press Windows Key + X and select Command Prompt (Admin) from the menu.
• Once Command Prompt window opens, enter the following command: powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
• You should be able to see the list of all devices that are allowed to wake up your computer. Enter
  powercfg -devicedisablewake “device name” into Command Prompt to stop a device from waking up your PC. Remember to
  replace “device name” with a name of the actual device. It’s also important to keep the quotation marks, so do not delete them.
• You can also use powercfg -deviceenablewake “device name” command to enable certain device to wake up your PC, but it is optional. You can find the name of the specific device by using the Device Manager.

Keep us in the loop with the result.