By default, when you close the lid of your laptop, it goes to sleep mode. But what if you want to keep your laptop on when its closed? There may be several reasons for keeping the laptop always on even you close its lid. For example, you want to plug your laptop into an external monitor or listen to music without looking at your bright screen. No matter what your reasons are, Windows 11 laptop will remain On even when its lid is closed.
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How to Keep Laptop On when the Lid Closed on Windows 11?
To change the default behavior of the Windows 11 laptop, when you close the lid, you need to make the changes in Control Panel.
Step 1. Open Control Panel.
To do that, open the Run dialog box by pressing Windows + R keys simultaneously from the keyboard. In the Run box, type Control Panel and hit Enter from the keyboard or click the OKbutton.
Step 2. Clickthe Hardware and Sound category in the Control Panel window.
Step 3. Select the Power Options.
Step 4. Now, in the left sidebar, click the link Choose what closing the lid does.
Step 5. Select the Do nothing option from the drop-down menu of When I close the lid.
Step 6. Finally, click on the Save changesbutton at the bottom of the System Settings window.
If Do nothing is already selected for the When I close the lid option and still above steps does not help to keep your laptop On, make hibernation unavailable. For that, use the following steps:-
Step 1. Open an elevated Command Prompt.
Step 2. Click Yesif you get a UAC prompt.
Step 3. Type powercfg /hibernate off and then press Enter key on the keyboard.
Thats it. Next time you close the laptops lid, it will do nothing, which means it will not go into sleep mode. When you want to enable Sleep mode again when you close the lid, repeat the above steps, and in step 5 above, select the Sleep option from the drop-down menu of When I close the lid.
Good luck!