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How to Keep a Windows Laptop Awake With the Lid Closed

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While your laptop obviously works great on-the-go, you can use it at home too. By connecting an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor, a laptop can function like a desktop. But there's one problem with this: how do you keep the laptop on when it's closed?

By default, Windows puts your laptop to sleep when you close the lid. This means that even if you don't want to use your laptop screen as a secondary monitor, you still have to keep it open to keep your computer awake.

Or do you? Thankfully, you can keep your monitor on when the laptop is closed. Here's how.

How to Keep the Display On When Your Laptop Is Closed


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