The power button as well as the folding of your laptop would come up with different responses altogether. You can customize this as well and decide what your machine should do once you press the power button or close your laptop. You have a number of options that include shut down, sleep, hibernate and no action. Your machine would fall into the selected state once you close your laptop cover.

Applying same settings to all the power plans

In case you wish to make all the same changes to each power plan around your system, you need to follow the simple instructions below:

  • Click on the Start menu and then Control Panel.
  • Click System and Security icon within the control panel and then click Power Options.
  • You would land to Select a power plan page. Click on Chose what closing the lid does button.
  • The next step would land you to the Define power buttons and turn on password protection page. Move Next to the When I close the lid.
  • You would be given a number of options to choose from along with the option to make a selection between the settings while the laptop is connected to the power supply and when the laptop is running on batter power. Make the appropriate changes of your choice.
  • Click Save changes and exit.

This would certainly change the options for all the power plans and no matter what power plan would you be following, you would come up with the same defined response once you close the lid.

Applying settings to a specific power plan

You can do power plan wide changes with respect to the feature that the laptop closing renders. These changes would be applicable to the power plan only and the others would stay unaffected. Follow the instructions below to make such changes.

Click on the Start menu and then Control Panel.

  • Click System and Security icon within the control panel and then click Power Options.
  • You would land to Select a power plan page. Click on Change plan settings for the specific plan that you intend to change.
  • You would land to the Change settings for the plan page, click on the Change advanced power settings button.
  • On the Advanced Settings page, expand Power buttons and lids, and then Lid close action. You would come up with a number of options to chose from that might include shut down, sleep, hibernate, and no action. You would even have distinct options for the laptop when it would be running on power supply and another when the computer might be running on the batter back up. Choose your desired action and OK.

These changes would make your system perform better and you can save energy and other resources at the same time. While it comes to the laptop, you are most of the time advised to send your laptop to the Sleep mode with the power button as well as the lid closing. This would help you resume the work you were doing, from exactly the same place where you placed your system to sleep.