RDP to Windows 7 is stuck on Welcome screen after wake-on-lan from sleep

Question

I am trying to set up wake-on-lan for my office desktop (Windows 7 Enterprise). I want it to sleep when I am not there, unless I wake it up remotely and use it in a remote desktop session. Things initially work ok out of the box (no changes in BIOS or network adapter): if the desktop sleeps, my RDP session wakes it up (it beeps), then I can enter my password. However at this moment the RDP session stays stuck on the welcome screen, forever:

This happens both for reconnecting to existing sessions or for logging in as a new session. Things only get unstuck and the RDP session wakes up completely when I move the mouse (the desktop's own physical mouse , not the mouse on the remote client - I am testing this from a laptop in the same room, so I have physical access to the desktop). Any idea what I should do to make the desktop wake up completely even when I have no physical access to it?

Solution

Would connecting as the console session help?

mstsc /admin

Comments

[2xMax]

If nothing helps and even Restart-Computer powershell cmdlet not works, you can try to restart the computer using WMI in powershell: Invoke-WmiMethod -ComputerName COMPUTER_IP -Credential (Get-Credential) -Class Win32_Process -Name Create -ArgumentList "shutdown -r -f -t 0" . BTW, Jessica's solution didn't help in my situation (IDK what really happened with my computer), but forced reboot solved the problem.

[Kinnectus]

This may be related to the USB suspend state of your USB devices or hubs...