By Thilak March 2, 2007

Close Your Laptop Lid, without putting your PC on Standby

TechBuzz reader, Nisha dropped me a mail asking “How to close the laptop Lid, without putting it on standby” and in the mean time, she wants to utilize her laptops idle time to download.

By default, all laptops either go on standby or turn off to save precious battery, but you can override these rules from the Power Options (XP) in your control panel (Start > Control Panel > Performance and Maintenance > Power Options) and click on Advanced Tab and override the settings according to your preference.

I prefer “Do nothing” while closing the lid. Although this is real simple, few of us might not know it. I hope this helps you Nisha!

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Discussion

Comments for “Close Your Laptop Lid, without putting your PC on Standby”

  • Abhinav
    Thanks. That was useful.
  • kb24
    Could anybody help me here too,I've been leaving my laptop overnight to download stuff too. but lately when i wake the computer from idle mode,it always starts to hang,leaving me to just do a manual.

    I've already set my hardisk not to die,closing the lid 'do nothing', my laptop is set not to sleep at all.

    Any ideas on this?Btw,im using Vista Home premium
  • Good Tip , Carry on with modern computerized discussion.. thanks

    Jahangir
  • Todd
    Ok now i have all my setting to do nothign when i close my lid of my laptop. i also put the power managment to noting so hard drivers dont goto sleep ect...

    i come back in the morning and limwire is off.

    So i restart it. then i close my lid to go eat breakfast. come back and wala, limwire is gone again.

    so i restart it. this time i close my lid for 2 seconds. and wala its gone again

    why does it do that. all my power settings aer set not to do anyting when i close my lid.

    please help. thanks.
  • That's a good tip. I usually waste precious minutes with this problem.
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