USB port power settings

What to do

1. Open w0a
2. Go to the Fix page in the left menu
3. Type usb into the search box
4. Press the button on the USB port power settings card

What the card's answer means

After you press it, the card writes a line underneath. Which line you get decides your next step.

• "Fixed — N setting(s) put back to the Windows default." — this was the broken thing and it has been put back. If the problem continues, see below.
• "Nothing to fix — this was already at the Windows default." — these settings were never changed. Whatever you are seeing has another cause, and pressing this card again will not help.
• "Nothing to fix — this component is not installed on this PC." — the thing this card repairs is not present on this Windows. Your edition may not include it, or it may have been removed earlier.
• "Another repair is running." — only one card runs at a time, because several of them would undo each other's work. Wait for it to finish and press again.

What this card actually does

If a USB device keeps dropping out, is slow to wake, or you want to undo a priority change made on the USB Ports page, restores every input device's sleep and power-management permissions to the Windows default.

For input devices, Windows's real default is selective suspend off — that is what the driver's own setup file (input.inf) installs — so this card writes exactly that, not a generic "power saving on" state.

Every repair card writes back the Windows default unconditionally; it does not depend on a backup of w0a's own existing. So it also helps if some other tool was what changed your machine.

If it did not help

If the card said it fixed something and the problem is still there, these settings were not the cause. Write to us — tell us which card you ran and what it printed; the two together are what narrows it down.