{"id":14652,"date":"2015-04-08T15:45:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/?p=14652"},"modified":"2018-06-19T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:33:01","slug":"solved-how-to-fix-a-bluetooth-mouse-that-keeps-disconnecting-in-windows-8-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2015\/04\/solved-how-to-fix-a-bluetooth-mouse-that-keeps-disconnecting-in-windows-8-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLVED: How to fix a bluetooth mouse that keeps disconnecting in Windows 8 &#038; 8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many perfectly good Bluetooth mice are sent back to the manufacturer for randomly disconnecting, when in fact they are working 100{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} fine. Most of the time it&#8217;s not the mouse, but Windows 8 that&#8217;s causing the problem. Here&#8217;s how I fixed it:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Search for <strong>Device Manager<\/strong> &#8211; select <strong>Human Interface Devices:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14654\" src=\"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/device-manager.gif\" alt=\"how to fix a wireless bluetooth mouse that keeps disconecting\" width=\"413\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go to <strong>Bluetooth AVRCP Device<\/strong> &#8211; Properties &#8211; Power Management &#8211;<br \/>\nthen <strong>deselect<\/strong> <em>&#8220;Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14653\" src=\"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bluetooth.gif\" alt=\"bluetooth 3 mouse disconnection bug fix\" width=\"413\" height=\"251\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You might also need to do this for <strong>Bluetooth HID Device<\/strong> and <strong>Microsoft Hardware Bluetooth Device<\/strong> if you have a Microsoft mouse.<\/p>\n<p>Voila! It should stay connected from now on. You might need to remember to manually switch off your mouse from now on to conserve batteries when you&#8217;re not using it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many perfectly good Bluetooth mice are sent back to the manufacturer for randomly disconnecting, when in fact they are working 100{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} fine. Most of the time it&#8217;s not the mouse, but Windows 8 that&#8217;s causing the problem. Here&#8217;s how I fixed it:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,235],"tags":[398],"class_list":["post-14652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-out","category-nifty-hacks-and-tips","tag-hacks-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}