A friend of mine can start up his computer by double clicking his mouse. Does anyone know how i can do this?

He runs on windows vista ultimate.






thanks

need to look into your computer bios and see if you have that options for it.

In your BIOS you should be able to set options for "S3 Wake." One of my motherboards lets me use the keyboard, the mouse, etc. Then, you put Vista in standby, and when you click the mouse or use the keyboard the computer will come out of standby and you can use it. It doesn't work if you actually shut it down, because then there'd be nothing to detect a keyboard press or a mouse click.

You can turn on the computer from a complete shutdown but your BIOS has to support it. I can turn on my PC by hitting the spacebar on my PS/2 keyboard, not sure if it would work with a USB one.

EDIT: Think of Wake on LAN but Wake on Keyboard

yes its an option in your bios called wake up via mouse, another for keyboard, another for wake up using lan.

where do i go into my bios too see if i have this feature?

Power Options.
Ek, even my father have this on his P3

Are you sure he really starts up his pc with this? Because Windows Vista has a Standby button at the place where usually is the shut-down button. When the pc is in Standby Mode, you can launch your system by pressing the mouse button. You can set everything about this in the Power Options on your Control Panel.

I turn my PC using my space bar mines called something like wake on keyboard....has an option of like what key out of 3 I wanna use. Can use mouse to if I really wanted to