Keyboard PITA (solved but curious)

[mrclose]

I use a microsoft wireless laser keyboard and mouse.

Left my pc in sleep mode, came back a few hours later and I couldn't use my ctrl and mouse to zoom a page.

Couldn't type with any of the QWERTY keys either!

The favorites buttons at the top worked and so did the home, calendar, mail and document buttons along the side!

There was an icon in the task bar that looked like a small clock that when I would bring it up .. showed keyboard options.

(I never opened this tool before leaving the pc .. it apparently came up on it's own?)

Regardless .. I couldn't get it to do anything to return the keyboard settings 'and' to top it all off .. I couldn't get rid of the tool from my task bar!!

I couldn't shut it down (tool) no matter what I tried.
(Didn't know what to look for among the hundreds of processes in task manger either since it wasn't listed under applications)

I finally had to do a restore which did return everything to normal!

Any ideas on what could have caused this?

Thanks

[Chris_]

Open the device manager and find the driver for your wireless keyboard.  In the power management properties, disable "Allow this comptuer to turn off this device to save power".

[mrclose]

I was told that it was the result of some registry keys not coming out of the sleep mode that the pc was in.

Vista seems to have a problem 'sometimes' with sleep mode!?

Thanks for your reply.

[Chris_]

EDIT:  You should have one or more USB Root Hubs listed.  Make the same power management change for each one.

I had a similar issue with USB mice no matter how many I replaced.  Try running the registry tool on CCleaner.

Be sure to save a backup copy of the registry.