My computer is listening (please help)

[Jake_-_-]

When I walk up to my computer and put something on the desk it starts up. At first I thought this was just a random occurrence but today I know for a fact it isn't. I quietly walked up to my computer and without touching the computer I put a glass down on it which caused it to wake from sleep. I think every time I come down the stairs it wakes up which was a cool coincidence till I realized my computer is always listening.

How do I make this stop, I don't like when my computer can and always is picking up on what's around it.

 

[4745454b]

I'd start by turning off the mouse wake up event. If the mouse moves it can wake up the PC.

I doubt it's listening. Do you even have a mic plugged in? If it's not the mouse it's probably a way harder to fix electrical problem.

 

[USAFRet]

I had a PC that would wake up just walking across the room.
1/250 inch mouse movement....AWAKE!

It is almost certainly your mouse doing this.

 

[Jake_-_-]

I'd start by turning off the mouse wake up event. If the mouse moves it can wake up the PC.

I doubt it's listening. Do you even have a mic plugged in? If it's not the mouse it's probably a way harder to fix electrical problem.

(I'll put this in an update) I do have a mic plugged in all the time. Although when I noticed this I made a mental note, when I tried to wake it up now with sounds nothing happened. I even lightly hit my fist on the area around my mouse and nothing happened.

 

[Mixxer]

Open a command prompt and type:

powercfg -lastwake

This will tell you what caused Windows to wakeup, the last time it was woke up. Important, you need to do this *after* it randomly wakes up on it's own, not after you normally wake it up with keyboard/mouse. This should point you in the right direction. Mine said it was a USB device (my keyboard is a USB device).

Later you can go into Device Manager, right click on the device, choose properties and look around and you should find a way to prevent it from waking the computer up.