If you solely want to use the external display click on the “ Second Screen only“. In case ensure you’re doing this right way.īy default Windows will detect and start using the external display, if not you can press the Win + P button and select how you want to use screens. The above steps are somewhat similar to each windows version, most of the external monitors are plug-and-play, and thus you don’t need extra settings to use the external monitor while your laptop’s lid is closed. Close the laptop and use a monitor in windows 10: (You can directly open this setting page by searching “change what closing the lid does” in start menu search box.) To make your computer not sleepīelow are some usage of keeping the laptop awake while lid the closed. Next time closing laptop lid will not make it sleep and it can continue doing the work while the lid is close. So there will be no effect on your computer when you close the lid. Under the When I close the lid, set “ Do nothing” in both boxes. This is the setting to change what happens when you close your laptop windows 10 or older.
Sometimes you may not find the option, it happens when you did a fresh Windows installation, and when you don’t install a graphics driver. Access Lid settings Change what happens when I close the lid windows 10įrom the right side, there will be a link to the “ choose what closing the lid does“, or you can search the same from the start menu. or You can hit the start menu and search for “ Power options“.įrom the opened box, there will be a “ Advanced power options“, you need to go there. Click on the power/battery icon from the taskbar, and then choose “ Power & sleep settings“.