Once your system is ready, close the lid to your laptop, or use the power button menu to put your desktop to sleep. This problem can be reproduced by booting to your desktop and allowing the boot to complete. SPOILER ALERT: Scroll down and watch the video tutorial at the end of this article. If you’re getting this same problem, here’s how you can fix it. That said, there seems to be a problem whereby a small numbers of users get an unresponsive touchpad after your system wakes from sleep. For the most part this bug effects the Start menu or the lock screen. Windows 10 has had a long standing bug whereby various features and components become unresponsive after a system wakes from sleep.