Summary

This guide will walk you through on how to keep your laptop on when the lid is closed. Using this guide will be useful for when you want to plug your laptop into an external monitor.


Steps

1. Locate the Search Bar in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen.


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2. Type in Power & Sleep Setting and select. 



 

3. Select Additional Power Settings. 







4. Next, select Choose what closing the lid does 



How to Keep a Windows 10 Laptop On When It’s Closed



 

 

5. In the section of When I close the lid under Plugged in click the drop-down to and select Do nothing.



How to Keep a Windows 10 Laptop On When It’s Closed


6. Select Saved Changes.