Unfortunately, i neither have a wireless mouse nor any device that is allowed
to wake the computer ( i checked all devices on the device manager) except
the keyboard and mouse. Is there anything else I can try?
"Rishi" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It seems that there is some device in your system that constantly wakes up
> your computer, causing it not to be idle anymore. This might be your NIC
> card or something else. One way of
> finding the culprit is by opening up Device Manager > Network Adaptors (well
> you have to do this step for every hardware that might cause the computer to
> come out of sleep but here I'm just giving an example of the NIC) > Find
> your NIC adaptor that you use > Double click on it > Power Management tab >
> Uncheck 'allow this device to wake the computer' > Click OK and close device
> manager.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Rishi
> email: rishi@vista-news.com | web: http://vista-news.com
>
>
> "akash123" <akash123@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:59C4BE32-EBF0-4964-AB42-8B41F7E5AE30@microsoft.com...
> >I have Microsoft Vista Home Premium and i have setup a screensaver so that
> > after i am idle for 5 minutes, it displays the logon screen and asks for a
> > password. However, this never happens and i do not understand why. The
> > screensaver never appears, and therefore you never have to enter a
> > password.
> > What can i do?
>