Vista - A question on custom power plans and effect of lid closing

Hi there,

When at home with my laptop, I use external moniotor, mouse, keyboard. Notebook lid is closed. To use it this way, I had to choose a desired effect of lid closing, that is "do nothing when lid closes" (since I use polish language Windows, it may sound different in english).

It seems like this applies to all power management plans. It is a bit of annoyance, since when I'm on on the go, which is basically everyday, I want my machine to go to sleep when I close the lid, instead of "do nothing". That means, I have to either change the options on a daily basis or click start/on - off menu everytime, which is not very convenient.

I tried to create a custom power management plan and specify the desired behaviour for lid closing, but dint find the solution.

My question is - is it possible to have different actions performed after closing the lid, according to power plan that is in use?

OS is Vista Home Premium 32 bit. Thanks in advance for your help, folks.

Hello BGSH, and welcome.

This is an interesting question.
When you changed the setting to "Do Nothing", was this made in BIOS or in Vista?

If it was in BIOS, then no, it has to stay. If it was in Vista, then yes you can. There are three preset powersettings. Choose the HighPerformance one for when you are plugged in at home, and set the "Do nothing" there. Then open Max Power Saver (or something) and set it to whatever you need for that. That should fix it up for you.

~Lordbob