Greetings all. I have connected a Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000 to my PC using the USB adapter to connect to the normal "nmouse port". It works fine most of the time. However, if I let the PC go into sleep mode I will on occaision, not always, have a problem with the mouse not responding after awakening. It will not come back to life unless I reboot the system. There is no light emitted when this happens. Anyone having like problems? I have searched the archives and have not seen a similar problem. Thanks for any and all help.

Go to control panel, mouse, hardware, properties, power management. Make sure that the box that says, 'allow device to be shut to save power' or something like that, is not checked. You can always disable sleep mode, at last resort.

Thanx guapo for the advice. I did as you said (wouldn't have had to go to the control panel as Microsoft has plopped an icon on my desktop "Microsoft Mouse" that goes there, but didn't notice it right away). I went to the "hardware" box and then the "properties" box. When I do the "properties" thing I don't get the "power management" option that you mentioned. Instead I get four options: "General"(device working properly), Driver"("Driver Details" - "Update Driver" - "Uninstall"), "Details" (Microsoft PS/2 Port Mouse - Intelli Point), and "Resources" (No Conflict). Did the driver update, but said I already have the appropriate driver. It tells me everything is up to snuff and there is no conflict. As I said, this doensn't happen all the time, but often enough to be annoying. Open for any other suggestions.

I don't know what that option isn't there. There was no guarantee that it would fix the problem anyway.