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by tpmx 1389 days ago
(Thanks, I just did that. It worked.)

This demonstrates that it's in Microsoft's power to save a whole lot of electric power usage globally by pushing a software update.

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Sure, but those kinds of updates are usually the kind that hackernews complains about. "Microsoft pushes mandatory, OPT-OUT windows update that prevents mouse from waking up computer!"
Then later, in typical internet fashion.

"alt right angered as Trump slams Bidens mouse moving policy claiming freedom of mouse movement is more important than saving our planet from imminent assured death due to global warming"

I have never seen this happening, with many machines and different mice. Maybe it only happens with specific mice? Anyway, want I want to say is that the power usage across the world due to this misfeature is maybe not quite as dramatic as it may appear.
I's a high-DPI "gaming" mouse. I use it because it has lots of programmable buttons.

Gaming seems like quite a big thing with Windows users these days though and they seem to want high-DPI mice, so I do think it could actually be a sizeable thing outside of large office environments.

did it work for Bluetooth mouse? I thought that wakeup from sleep works only for wired mice