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using Win11, frequently have to reboot to get mouse to work again after 'lock'ing desktop - help!
Mousefluff, I just went and manually 'updated' the driver to the latest one on Lenovo's website for my pc, then went into device manager after rebooting to verify it is indeed using that new driver. I'll see how it does for a few days and post back later this week with the results...
Thx again for answering! 🙂
-Al
Update: today(Tues 4/12) - it's still doing the same thing whenever I lock the pc and am afk for any length of time. I had done as suggested and turned that power saving setting for usb to 'never'....but it really doesn't seem to have helped any..... At this point, I'm giving up(at least for the moment) and am guessing the guy who sold this thing on EBay was probably having the same problem. Unfortunately, I've pretty much resigned myself to having to replace it and am trying to snipe a same-model pc on EBay that doesn't have ram nor an O/S, so I can just transfer them from my laptop if I wind up winning it.
- well, didn't get that other laptop after all on EBay - it sold for about $50 more than my upper 'limit'.....
- Just went to the Synaptics website and installed their latest trackpoint driver.......*shrug* we'll see how that does I guess....
- Update: regarding the idea above to prevent the pc from turning off the mouse in power management settings - I'm familiar with the option ('historically'), but there is no such tab when I look for it there. So, I did the other tip, to select 'Adjust for best performance' and I think that's done the trick 🙂