If your on XP (dunno about others) go into control panel then performance and mentenance then go into the power settings. go to the advanced tab and change the when i close my lid option to; do nothing.
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If your vista, then go to control panel, then power settings. on the left should be options- including change times when computer sleeps. Hope i helped
Click Start > Control Panel > Power Options > Choose what closing the lid does
Both options for battery and mains should be set at 'Sleep' - Click the down arrow on both options and select the 'do nothing' option - Click 'Save changes' - and you're all done.
Change the option in Power setting under "Close lid" from shutdown to sleep or do nothing.
Sometimes such problems are caused by a bad video driver.
Really it dosent need to go to sleep unless SUPER AMOUNT of battery is gone but Opening and closing the lid (which is set to actual Sleep mode)
when the system is on sleep, it pauses the download. because the sleep mode is for saving resources like power. so all the stuff goes to suspend mode. the system must be in running mode for downloading. For laptop you can change the setting which says that do not put laptop on sleep when lid is closed.
Just shut the lid of the ds and it will automatically go into sleep mode!
well you see the computer has a magnet that has a cable that contracts when you pull it (pull it = close the computer ) it make the computer automatically say oh time to go to sleep either that or the technology is really cool these days. Haha! :)
Look under your power settings in the control panel. There are options there for "What to do when I press the power button", "What to do when I press the sleep button" and "What to do when I close the lid".
there is a small magnet on lid and magnetic switch on laptopbase
Depending on the hardware that Linux is running on, lifting the lid (of a laptop), pushing the power button (if the device is in a very low power mode), or simply providing input to the device. Sometimes, due to the resume image that is stored to the hard drive becoming corrupted, it is not possible to resume a session from sleep. In this case, you will have to hard reboot the device.
Partly depends on your laptop, but most will still run with the lid closed.
If you close the lid of the laptop before it has finished, it will suspend all activity and wait for you to open it again before proceeding. Otherwise you may be accidentally putting it into hibernate or sleep modes, or restarting it.
If you just close the lid it should turn the screen off with out turning the console off :)
If your laptop has a power button which can be accessed without opening the lid, just press the button. However most laptops these days have the power button under the lid (to keep you from accidentally turning it on in the bag) in which case, youll just have to open the lid.
The Macbook Air, like other laptops, will go into sleep mode when you close the cover. This is because when the system sends the 'Quit' or 'Exit' command to running applications, the application will ask if you want to save your work before quitting. This dialogue will stall the shut down procedure if it is not answered. So setting up to shut down when closing the cover would often fail. This would probably drain the battery and people would ask, "How can I get my laptop to go to sleep just by closing the cover?" When you close the lid of your MacBook Air, it does not shut down. It puts itself in Sleep Mode. To make sure that your MacBook Air is in sleep mode when you close the lid, simply look at the sleep light. It is the white light that glows. There is no setting that you can change to make your MacBook Air shut down when you close the lid. Operating Systems do not work that way.