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Turn off sleep during laptop's "close lid" in specific circumstances
Is there any kind of utility that can selectively turn sleeping on lid
closures of laptops? For example, if you have an external keyboard or mouse, or monitor attached to your laptop, it'll disable your sleep on lid closure event? But if none of those things are plugged in, then it'll keep them enabled? Yousuf Khan |
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Turn off sleep during laptop's "close lid" in specific circumstances
On 11-Jan-13 8:17 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Is there any kind of utility that can selectively turn sleeping on lid closures of laptops? For example, if you have an external keyboard or mouse, or monitor attached to your laptop, it'll disable your sleep on lid closure event? But if none of those things are plugged in, then it'll keep them enabled? Yousuf Khan The standard Windows power settings allows you to change the default lid close behaviour. I have mine set to take No Action when running on power (AC Adapter) and to Sleep if running on Battery. It's great that I can shut the lid when it's docked on a docking station and it doesn't sleep, then I can unplug it and go somewhere else and just open it and it's still running even though it's no on battery. If I shut the lid while it's on battery only, then the lid closing action puts it into sleep. I could change that too if I want, but this is how I want it. Paul |
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Turn off sleep during laptop's "close lid" in specific circumstances
On 10/01/2013 5:10 PM, dweebken wrote:
On 11-Jan-13 8:17 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote: Is there any kind of utility that can selectively turn sleeping on lid closures of laptops? For example, if you have an external keyboard or mouse, or monitor attached to your laptop, it'll disable your sleep on lid closure event? But if none of those things are plugged in, then it'll keep them enabled? Yousuf Khan The standard Windows power settings allows you to change the default lid close behaviour. I have mine set to take No Action when running on power (AC Adapter) and to Sleep if running on Battery. It's great that I can shut the lid when it's docked on a docking station and it doesn't sleep, then I can unplug it and go somewhere else and just open it and it's still running even though it's no on battery. If I shut the lid while it's on battery only, then the lid closing action puts it into sleep. I could change that too if I want, but this is how I want it. Paul Yeah, I know that about the power options, but I want it to be able to sleep the machine even when it's running on power and it's lid is closed, as long as it's not connected to any external human interface devices. Yousuf Khan |
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Turn off sleep during laptop's "close lid" in specific circumstances
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:20:14 -0500, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 10/01/2013 5:10 PM, dweebken wrote: On 11-Jan-13 8:17 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote: Is there any kind of utility that can selectively turn sleeping on lid closures of laptops? For example, if you have an external keyboard or mouse, or monitor attached to your laptop, it'll disable your sleep on lid closure event? But if none of those things are plugged in, then it'll keep them enabled? Yousuf Khan The standard Windows power settings allows you to change the default lid close behaviour. I have mine set to take No Action when running on power (AC Adapter) and to Sleep if running on Battery. It's great that I can shut the lid when it's docked on a docking station and it doesn't sleep, then I can unplug it and go somewhere else and just open it and it's still running even though it's no on battery. If I shut the lid while it's on battery only, then the lid closing action puts it into sleep. I could change that too if I want, but this is how I want it. Paul Yeah, I know that about the power options, but I want it to be able to sleep the machine even when it's running on power and it's lid is closed, as long as it's not connected to any external human interface devices. Yousuf Khan Probably you're stuck with doing it manually (confession: I'm guessing). Perhaps there's a scrip that will change the settings from one state to the other and another that will do the reverse. Then all you have to do is remember to run the scripts as needed :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Turn off sleep during laptop's "close lid" in specific circumstances
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:16:26 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:20:14 -0500, Yousuf Khan wrote: On 10/01/2013 5:10 PM, dweebken wrote: On 11-Jan-13 8:17 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote: Is there any kind of utility that can selectively turn sleeping on lid closures of laptops? For example, if you have an external keyboard or mouse, or monitor attached to your laptop, it'll disable your sleep on lid closure event? But if none of those things are plugged in, then it'll keep them enabled? Yousuf Khan The standard Windows power settings allows you to change the default lid close behaviour. I have mine set to take No Action when running on power (AC Adapter) and to Sleep if running on Battery. It's great that I can shut the lid when it's docked on a docking station and it doesn't sleep, then I can unplug it and go somewhere else and just open it and it's still running even though it's no on battery. If I shut the lid while it's on battery only, then the lid closing action puts it into sleep. I could change that too if I want, but this is how I want it. Paul Yeah, I know that about the power options, but I want it to be able to sleep the machine even when it's running on power and it's lid is closed, as long as it's not connected to any external human interface devices. Yousuf Khan Probably you're stuck with doing it manually (confession: I'm guessing). Perhaps there's a scrip that will change the settings from one state to the other and another that will do the reverse. Then all you have to do is remember to run the scripts as needed :-) "scrip" should be "script"... -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Turn off sleep during laptop's "close lid" in specific circumstances
On 11/01/2013 12:16 AM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
Probably you're stuck with doing it manually (confession: I'm guessing). Perhaps there's a scrip that will change the settings from one state to the other and another that will do the reverse. Then all you have to do is remember to run the scripts as needed :-) I was thinking this might be possible because I remember some laptops I had at work, which when inserted into docking stations would be prevented from going to sleep when the lid was shut. I thought maybe one of those utilities was available somewhere. I guess I'll have to consider keeping the full power activated when plugged into the power outlet method. Yousuf Khan |
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Turn off sleep during laptop's "close lid" in specific circumstances
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:23:03 -0500, Yousuf Khan
wrote: On 11/01/2013 12:16 AM, Gene E. Bloch wrote: Probably you're stuck with doing it manually (confession: I'm guessing). Perhaps there's a scrip that will change the settings from one state to the other and another that will do the reverse. Then all you have to do is remember to run the scripts as needed :-) I was thinking this might be possible because I remember some laptops I had at work, which when inserted into docking stations would be prevented from going to sleep when the lid was shut. I thought maybe one of those utilities was available somewhere. I guess I'll have to consider keeping the full power activated when plugged into the power outlet method. If you strike out everywhere else, it might be worth shooting a question over to the guy at www.nirsoft.net. There seems to be no end to what he can do, utility-wise. -- Char Jackson |
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Turn off sleep during laptop's "close lid" in specific circumstances
On 1/11/2013 5:23 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote: On 11/01/2013 12:16 AM, Gene E. Bloch wrote: Probably you're stuck with doing it manually (confession: I'm guessing). Perhaps there's a scrip that will change the settings from one state to the other and another that will do the reverse. Then all you have to do is remember to run the scripts as needed :-) I was thinking this might be possible because I remember some laptops I had at work, which when inserted into docking stations would be prevented from going to sleep when the lid was shut. I thought maybe one of those utilities was available somewhere. If you have it ON in the docking station with the lid open and then close it then it WILL go to sleep. If you power it UP in the docking station with the lid closed, then it will be running with the lid closed. |
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Turn off sleep during laptop's "close lid" in specific circumstances
On 1/12/2013 4:31 PM, Bob I wrote:
On 1/11/2013 5:23 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote: On 11/01/2013 12:16 AM, Gene E. Bloch wrote: Probably you're stuck with doing it manually (confession: I'm guessing). Perhaps there's a scrip that will change the settings from one state to the other and another that will do the reverse. Then all you have to do is remember to run the scripts as needed :-) I was thinking this might be possible because I remember some laptops I had at work, which when inserted into docking stations would be prevented from going to sleep when the lid was shut. I thought maybe one of those utilities was available somewhere. If you have it ON in the docking station with the lid open and then close it then it WILL go to sleep. If you power it UP in the docking station with the lid closed, then it will be running with the lid closed. My many Gateway M465 laptops work this way with Windows 7. My lid is always closed while docked and I use an external monitor while connected to the dock. Shutdown or hibernate works perfectly. Although if I put it in standby and when it wakes up, it defaults back to the internal display. If I lift the lid and then lower it again it then works perfectly fine and switches back to the external. That is the only flaw I ever found with Windows 7 on these machines. Oddly enough, XP and Windows 8 don't have this problem on the same machines. Btw, XP, 7, and 8 runs flawlessly on them except for this Windows 7 Standby thing in the dock. Ok only XP has a driver for the SD slot, but that is pretty useless with anything larger than 2GB anyway. So it isn't missed. ;-) -- Bill Dell Latitude Slate Tablet 128GB SSD ('12 era) - Thunderbird v12 Intel Atom Z670 1.5GHz - 2GB - Windows Pro 8 |
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