What is the Command to Minimize Windows and Maximize Windows without using the mouse?

Programming Help - Windows 8 and "Connected Standby"

• I want to disable my mouse during "Connected Standby", a special sleep mode that Windows 8 uses. This is to stop my mouse from waking up my tablet. How do I do this? I recently purchased http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00LU0UXA6/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ from Amazon, and it's really awesome, except for one major problem: when I close the lid, the screen hits the mouse button and wakes the computer up. I've tried for days to fix this problem, but I haven't gotten anything to work. Here's what I've tried: 1. In the device manager, turned off the option for "Allow this device to wake the computer." I'm guessing this solution doesn't work since sleep is actually not allowed by the tablet; Windows 8 uses a special "sleep" called connected standby, and it seems the settings haven't been properly aligned by Windows. 2. Disabled Connected Standby and just use hibernate - this is not an ideal situation since it takes several seconds for the tablet to start up, instead of instantly. I am currently using this solution. 3. Used the Event Viewer to run a .bat file to disable the mouse (using the devcon command) when the power button is pressed. However, this does not fix the problem because I don't think the .bat file actually runs while the computer is in connected standby; the mouse wakes the tablet up, and when I log in the mouse is disabled. I think the Windows 8 Desktop Activity Moderator (DAM) is blocking the program I wrote from being run during connected standby. 4. Contacted Quantum Suppliers, the company that made my tablet. However, their only solution was to use hibernate mode and forego Connected Standby altogether (i.e., solution #2). I found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23398950/any-api-to-prevent-windows-8-from-going-into-connected-standby-mode in Stack Overflow but I am not a programmer. I only have a bit of experience with Java programming and I don't understand what's going on here. But they seem to have found some way to run a program during connected standby. So, I am looking for some way of disabling my mouse during connected standby; whether that is some option in Windows that I'm missing; some registry hack; some program that's always running in the background, waiting for Connected Standby to start (or the screen to turn off); or some other solution I'm not thinking of. Thanks!

• Answer:

  You might be able to reduce the sensitivity of the mouse in the mouse control? If not that, you might be able to apply a small sticker or two adjacent to the mouse to keep it from being pressed?