Opening the lid of a laptop usually turns on the screen and as you close the lid, the screen should be turned off. But you can change these settings on your device. Follow this article to change what opening lid of your laptop does.
1. The easiest way to open the Run window is to press Windows key+R.
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2. Copy–paste this command and hit Enter.
control.exe powercfg.cpl,,3
3. Now, in the Power Options window, click on “Power buttons and lid” to expand it.
4. Now, click on “Lid open action” and then click on “On battery:” and from the drop-down select what settings you want to enable on your computer. You can also change the settings in “Plugged in:“.
5. Now, click on “Apply” and “OK“.
Once you have saved the settings, close the Power Options window. Reboot your device.
NOTE–
If you can not find the “Lid open action” in Power Options window, follow these steps-
1. Open a Run window.
2. Type “cmd” there and Press CTRL + SHIFT + Enter key together to open elevated command prompt.
2. Copy and paste this command in Command Prompt window and hit Enter to execute this command.
powercfg -attributes SUB_BUTTONS 99ff10e7-23b1-4c07-a9d1-5c3206d741b4 -ATTRIB_HIDE
Now, open the Power Options window, and re-attempt the steps again. You should be able to tweak what opening the lid of the laptop does.
Sambit is a Mechanical Engineer By qualification who loves to write about Windows 10 and solutions to weirdest possible problems.
Kokic says
Great! Work 11.01.2021.
Anonymous says
doesn’t work win 10 Jan 2021
Leibel Cohen says
I followed the steps of the second option (as my Dell G5 does not have the lid option listed. However even after following the instructions it does not list the “lid open actions”.
Any advice?
Anonymous says
I follow all the steps and chose ”do nothing” and reboot the pc but still it did not work. 🙁 How should I do? Help me please.
Pete says
Worked thanks. I still can’t see the option in settings but it has worked. Thanks again!
Ishaant says
I wished everyone wrote articles as clean and to the point as this.
Elbert says
Very well done, very clear. Thanks a lot!
Mustafa says
Hi
Followed all the instructions as u mentioned in ur post but in my laptop ( acer aspire A515-51) won’t turn on the screen when I open the lid. My laptops power button is not working. Pls suggest some alternative method. Thank u in advance
Jamish Pirkan says
Thank you so much, microsoft and all stupid threads did not help it. This worked perfectly.
Anonymous says
First part worked for me i.e. “Lid open action” started appearing but laptop still turns on even after I chose “Do nothing” on lid open.
Any suggestions what to do to disable this behavior..
Thanks!
Mr.K says
Thank you genius. When I first installed the win 10, it worked as if it was a win 10 satisfied function. Now after the re-installation, it disappeared and I felt I was struck by bad luck. You save my day.
Ryan Lincoln says
Ok, so running the command does make the laptop wake when the lid opens, its just that I don’t get the GUI option to enable/disable it.
In that case your fix worked. Thank you 🙂
Ryan Lincoln says
HI, I have a Dell XPS 15 2019. I dont have the open lid option and tried running using the “powercfg…” command, but I still don’t see the option. Is there anything else that I can try?
Anonymous says
Thank you very much. This worked well.
P. F. says
Followed all the instructions, including reboot, but it (HP EliteBook 840 G3) still won´t turn on the screen when the lid is opened, only when the power button is pressed.
L S says
I appreciate this. It looks like it worked, although I haven’t yet rebooted. I also appreciate the noninvasive nature of this post! It’s refreshing these days to not be bombarded.
Anonymous says
Thank you. It’s worked.
Steve says
Thank You. Concise and well written. You help us overcome Microsoft idiocracy and I will never understand why the option for lid “open” is not default there along with lid “close”.
Ash says
Seriously, thank you. A bad lid sensor means this laptop wakes itself up and stays on in my bag until the battery dies. Half dozen times a day.
Anonymous says
I did the second part and chose the option of “Do nothing” but still it didn’t work.
Adam says
Thank you! The second part of the instructions worked. Awesome!
Anonymous says
Thank u .It worked
Anonymous says
This worked like a charm!