Beginner Geek: Change What Windows Does When You Shut Your Laptop's Lid

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Are you tired of your laptop automatically going to sleep when you shut its lid?

By default, most laptops automatically go into sleep mode when you terminate the lid.

Sometimes, though, you might want to leave your laptop running while the lid is shut.

Warning: Do not put your laptop in its bag while it’s running!

It will almost certainly overheat.

Change the options to the right of “When I wrap up the lid.”

There are separate options for “On battery” and “Plugged in.”

In Sleep, the laptop will remain in a low-power state so it can quickly resume.

In Hibernate,the laptop will save its state to disk.

It won’t consume any power while hibernating, but turning it back on will take some extra time.

Related:Should You Shut Down, Sleep, or Hibernate Your Laptop?

Click “Save changes” at the bottom of the window to preserve your changes when you’re done.

You canconfigure this from Windows 10’s advanced power tweaks.

Simply nudge the battery icon in your system tray, and select More power options.

Alternately, you’re able to fire up the Power Options window directly from your Start Menu search.

you’re free to select to Do nothing, Sleep, Hibernate, or Shut down.

Underneath you’ll notice a couple more controls, though they’re protected by default.

Click Change tweaks that are currently unavailable to change them.

Once you’re done, click Save at the bottom to start using your new configs.

Now you’re in full control of what happens when you close your laptop.