How do I close a laptop cover and not go into sleep mode so that it displays on another monitor?
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Right-click on your desktop, and select properties. Then, click screensaver, and at the bottom, click power.  Click the tabs in that area and you might find where to change that setting.  I think you can have it sleep or just continue to run.
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Try going to hibernate instead of standby by holding down the shift key and then pressing the hibernate button. My guess from experience is that your laptop is not configured correctly for standby mode and that hibernate would be your best bet. Good luck!
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It sounds like it is staying in Standby Mode.\nRight Click Desktop> Screen Saver> Power>   System Stanby and Hibernates to (NEVER).\n\nGo to to system Setup. Restart your system and press F2.\nand set power Management.\nHarry
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depends on how much you use your pc.. if you use your computer throughout the day, keep it on all day and turn it off at night.\n\nTry this-\nscreen saver on after 15 minutes of inactivity.\nstandby after 30 minutes of inactivity\nhard drive off after 45 minutes of inactivity
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Start / Control Panel / Power Options\n\n Set to "always on". Press Okay
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This is a known issue with Windows 98.  To resolve, go into desktop properties, Screensaver tab, the settings button under "energy saving features for your monitor".  Under the Power Schemes tab, change the power scheme to always on, and make sure everything is set to never.
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The screen will usually do this if you have not been active on the computer, it's to conserve the screen and energy.  Right click on the screen, click properties on the pop-up, click screen saver, click setting and set turn of monitor to never.
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Go to My Computer->Control Panel->Display->Screen Saver.  If you want to, you can just turn them all off by choosing <None>.  But you may also choose to turn it to a different one, or Blank Screen.  "Blank Screen" is just that; it will go to black.  "None" means it will never turn off the page you are looking at, no matter how long you go away and leave it.  That's hard on the monitor.  That is, if you leave your monitor showing the same static display for a long time, you can burn it.  Then you have a ghost of the page when you go on to other things, and you shorten the life of your monitor.\n\nHowever, you may also find that there are other screen savers on there you didn't even know you had, because Windows generally comes with a variety of them.  Why not change around sometimes, but still give your monitor the saving?  Or even download some of the millions of free ones out there, and come to love your screen saver as much as I love mine.  It's from Scholastic Books, and has a lot of pictures from the Harry Potter series.  Very cool!
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standby mod if you want the computer to stay on your files but not have the screen on then you put it on stand by i have a labtop and thats what i do.
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If the refresh rate solution mentioned earlier doesn't work, check your screen's user manual and see if it has its own, built-in power saving feature. \n\nLCD screens are very suceptible to burn-in, so some models will turn themselves off if they don't sense enough change in the picture in a given time frame. You'd turn this feature off through the Menu button on your monitor, if it has it.\n\nThat said, your Windows power settings may also be set to turn your monitor off after a period of inactivity; this would happen even if the PC is performing some task, such as playing music, downloading, etc.; anything that doesn't involve input from the mouse-keyboard.\n\nYou can test this by striking any key on your keyboard when your screen is blank and the computer is running. If the screen comes back on, it's Windows turning the monitor off.\n\nTo stop that, go to Start --> Control Panel and choose Power Options. Under Turn Off Monitor, choose Never.\n\nAgain, be careful; LCD monitors do burn in, so you don't want to leave the same image up all the time or you will get "ghost" images.
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if what you want is to do is, to download music, videos or whatever at nite and go to sleep without stay awake waiting, like I do, just set your power saving settings to the appropiate value: "system standby: never", "hard disk power off: never" "screen power off: 5 minutes" (or whatever you want), keep the laptop connected to an AC outlet and that is it.\n\non the other hand, if what you want is download things at school while in class for example, well, that is more difficult, because some laptops allow you to stay on while closed, but most just send you to standby as soon as you close it and NO, you cannot stay connected while the computer is on standby, not a laptop not a desktop (unless you use a "wake-on-lan" NICon such desktop, but normally that is used when that pc is to be used as a file-server)
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I leave mine on all the time and the dell guy told me to turn it off a couple of hours a day.\n\nMake sure you have a screen saver that moves or something because if the screen sits to long it can burn the image into your monitor
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There should be a keyboard combination keys (Fn plus something) to switch between display devices on every laptop.\n\nCheck out a BLUE display symbol in your keyboard
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go to control panel power options(if u dont see it,change it to classic view) nd u'll find and option that sayz turn off monitor change it from 30 secs to never\nlol tc\nnd beware of the web
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right click on the task bar manager and select "options" menu and unclick "hide when minimized". \n\nOr press "Alt" + "Tab" key together and you can select between applications.  Although this is used more if you are switching between applications
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Stop the computer from sleeping.  The screen saver is ok to come on but don't let it sleep.\n\nControl Panel --> Display or\nRight click on Desktop, choose properties.\n\nGo to Screen Saver tab, click on Power.\n\nGive it NEVER on, System Standby and System Hibernate and Turn off Harddisk.\n\nYou can give some time till monitor turn off (it's ok to leave that on)
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go to your 'POWER OPTIONS' in CONTROL PANEL.\n\ngo to the 'ADVANCED' tab.\n\nunder 'POWER BUTTONS'  select 'DO NOTHING' in the 'WHEN I CLOSE THE LID OF MY PORTABLE COMPUTER' drop down menu.