Power Management option missing

Bradley 20 Reputation points
2025-09-12T12:49:02.3233333+00:00

I have a user who doesn't like that their mouse falls asleep after such a short period of time being away from their desk. Iv told her that its just a power saving feature of wireless mice but she hates it. I had the understanding that either under power management settings or device manager setting i would be able to turn off the feature that allows the mouse to either sleep or not sleep. but when i go into "Change advance power settings" there is no option for USB devices. When i go in device manager and click on the mouse in question, under properties there is no tab for power management. But other post i have checked all say the same thing that under these two settings we should be able to change the power settings but there is nothing. Is there a work around for this at all? edit: they are on windows 11 pro

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  1. Darrell Gorter 2,901 Reputation points
    2025-09-12T15:41:10.9866667+00:00

    Hello,

    Probably need to use powercfg to attempt to do this.

    Link to Powercfg commands. https://free.blessedness.top/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/powercfg-command-line-options#option_setacvalueindex

    Darrell

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