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Currently when I close the lid of my Acer laptop running Windows Vista, the laptop does not power down; however, when I open the lid it does. When looking at the power settings it is set to power down when closing the lid. The trigger to this seems to be the lid being opened not being closed.

I seem to recall this behaviour changing when I installed Windows Media centre.

Any ideas on how I can get the power down to work on the lid closing?

Thanks.

nhinkle
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BENBUN
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Is it set to power down on lid closing on both battery and cord power?

Pylsa
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YOu'll have to look and edit in each power setting, balanced, high preformance and power saving and pick the settings there that work best. It has actions for the lid, what to do on close on plugged in and what to do on batter. To fully set this up how you want it, you'll need to set it at least 6 times (3 power modes, on each of them, for battery and plugged in)

Media center could have done it, because it will let you keep a computer on (prevent sleep, shutdown, etc) while media is sharing, including the ability to allow a sleeping computer to be waken up to share media. My bet is media center changed 2 settings, the What do do what the lib closes, and maybe even the media sharing. Look into them both.

alpha1
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