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Recently when I activate my mouse to open the display, the screen is delayed for 5 to 10 seconds before it opens back up if it has been resting. But I see the screen picture background for about a second or two, then the screen goes to white (nothing) for the 5 to 10 seconds mentioned. Before this started happening, the screen would open at the instant the mouse moved. I've tried things from SETTINGS, but no help. I have Windows 10 OS. Thanks. If this is an in-appropriate post for TT, please delete it.
 
Are we talking desk top? I'm far from being an expert with these miserable things, but have you unplugged it for a while? I took mine in one time because it was doing odd things and wouldn't load and it worked when they plugged it in and started it. Another time Royse drove up here and looked at it and the same thing remedied the problem.
 
Is it a roller mouse, or a laser mouse? If roller, turn the hold washer, take the ball out, and clean the dirt and debris off of it, and off the plastic rollers up inside. If it's a laser, check for hairs and debris around the light. We have a shedding dog, and I clean hairs out of ours about every 3 days. That's the easy fix. It's up to someone with a lot more smarts than me if its more than just dirty. steve
 
I recommend going to settings, then updates and security. there may have been improvements that required a software update. Another issue might be the mouse driver and its relationship to Windows 10. I use a Logitec wireless mouse Anywhere MX is the model. great feel and modest cost. Does tapping the space bar start the screen like the mouse did before?
Jim
 
I have a tower system, a laser mouse and just tried what Mr. Lund suggested to do a shutdown of tower and monitor, then bring them back on. It seems to have helped considerably. I'll report back after giving it some more time and trials.

Thanks.
 
Have you had an update recently? Everytime Microsoft does an update on my computer I have to fight it for weeks. The last time the computer wouldn't even boot up anymore.
 
I just know checked Mr. Nicholson's suggestion and with a quick browsing it appears things are up to date.
 
i removed 5 updates n that helped my hp. im thinking updates sometimes are made so you get mad n buy new 1. in settings you ca find the page to remove some updates but not all of em. my daughter is decent on them she uses em at her work so she showed me how to remove em.
 
(quoted from post at 18:26:07 01/31/23) How can I know if there has been an update?

Your computer will tell you that it is updating. During that time you won't be able to use it.

People hate updates but they're necessary to fix bugs that the bad guys exploit to take control of your computer, steal your identity, take everything you have.

It won't matter how big of a fit you throw at the bank. When your money is gone, it's gone.
 
On Windows 10 Microsoft(MS) thinks every computer is a laptop running on battery and it attempts to put everything possible to sleep to save battery power even though your PC is a desktop, so you have to go to Settings > System > Power & Sleep and change the Screen time to a longer time and change the Sleep to Never. After every major update MS likes to reset these options back to its default.

Also on Windows 10 to improve startup time MS on a Power > Shutdown stores a copy of PC memory on disk and when PC is Powered ON it just reloads the copy of memory on disk back into memory as apposed to reloading each program individually. Solution is to either Hold the Shift key while clicking on the Power > Shutdown menu.
The above causes another problem in that if a copy of a program(s) becomes corrupted in memory then doing a Power > Shutdown and Power ON reloads the same bad program(s) again.

Always a good practice when ever something is working funny to do a Power > Restart and this forces MS to reload everything from the original programs on disk not from the stored memory image.
Also a good practice to do Power > Restart every few days to cleanup areas of memory that MS has left junk in.

You can use Google to see the exact procedures to setup the Power & Sleep options.

Try the Power > Restart method first.
 
That is probably what killed my old computer in December. I got a used computer from the computer repair place. Was supposed to be good, did not half work from day. Would not let you on at times for ay least 10 hours and would shut off while trying to do work on it. I guess it is windows 10 but running Firefox. Last time I made the 80 mile one way trip I told them if they did not get it working I was never coming back to their store that late wife and I had delt with for probably over 20 years. They said they had it running for 4 hours and found nothing wrong but when I cot it back hone it has not shut off on me since. After we got off dialup never shut a computer down. Had 2 of them when she was living. I still cannot find a way to print a bunch of things or it does not print correctly. I get bank statement daily and the old one and until 3 days ago this one did as should. Control bar on left to use to get inbox, spam and other things did not croud in so can't get right side to be printed because what is not supposed to be printing takes over the page, I have trouble even getting a serch bar uo so I can ever get things like todays weather. He did when I got it get YT in so easy to get that but nothing else. If I get something in search bar that I want to keep it moves around every time I want to get on and drops things out of search. This is a tower. When you are broke you cannot buy new. I did find 3 very tiny dots that Let me print some things.
 
Replace the battery in your wireless mouse; not needed on a corded one. Intermittent wireless mouse issues are sometimes solved by doing this. One doesn't generally think about the mouse or wireless keyboard having batteries, until strange things happen.

Windoze updates trashing the system is one reason I moved to Linux. I can update while still using the computer (takes about 5 minutes), and I don't have to reboot but once every three or four months, and that is only necessary because the kernel (core of the OS) is updated. I have gone for 6 months without a reboot. zuhnc
 

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