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> The first thing I always do on a new laptop (or install) is go into Power Settings and change the Closing Lid action from putting the computer to sleep to jus

> The first thing I always do on a new laptop (or install) is go into Power Settings and change the Closing Lid action from putting the computer to sleep to just turning off the screen. Yikes! Why? I haven't had an issue with a laptop properly going to sleep and coming back in many years. This was something I used to do back in 2008 but it's hard to imagine today.

Casseres 8y ago
Because I close the lid when not in use, and don't want programs running in the background to stop when it goes to sleep.
- coldtea 8y ago
  If you want some program to finish processing something (e.g. video render), there are programs on both Mac and Windows to keep the laptop from sleeping on demand. The normal situation, 99% of times, when one closes the lid on a laptop is to not use it, and to not want to have any programs run in the background. You close the lid to put the laptop in your back, take it to the office, etc. Except if you have your laptop always on your desk and never leaving it. In which case it's not really used as a laptop...
  - the_af 8y ago
    > Except if you have your laptop always on your desk and never leaving it. In which case it's not really used as a laptop... This is exactly how I use all of my laptops, both personal and at work, about 90% of the time. I consider them "portable desktops" ;)
EpicEng 8y ago
I close the lid of my laptop constantly and, even if (when) sleep works, I don't want to wait around. Have never had an issue.
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SECProto 8y ago
I had an issue where I got a pink screen of death every time i woke my windows 10 laptop up from sleep. I believe it was a driver bug. It finally got fixed with the Spring Creators Update, so now I can sleep my computer again! (side note/separate complaint, windows 10 tries to update one driver repeatedly, every time I check. I wish there were some way to disable that update.)

Casseres 8y ago

Because I close the lid when not in use, and don't want programs running in the background to stop when it goes to sleep.

coldtea 8y ago
If you want some program to finish processing something (e.g. video render), there are programs on both Mac and Windows to keep the laptop from sleeping on demand. The normal situation, 99% of times, when one closes the lid on a laptop is to not use it, and to not want to have any programs run in the background. You close the lid to put the laptop in your back, take it to the office, etc. Except if you have your laptop always on your desk and never leaving it. In which case it's not really used as a laptop...
- the_af 8y ago
  > Except if you have your laptop always on your desk and never leaving it. In which case it's not really used as a laptop... This is exactly how I use all of my laptops, both personal and at work, about 90% of the time. I consider them "portable desktops" ;)

EpicEng 8y ago

I close the lid of my laptop constantly and, even if (when) sleep works, I don't want to wait around. Have never had an issue.

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SECProto 8y ago

I had an issue where I got a pink screen of death every time i woke my windows 10 laptop up from sleep. I believe it was a driver bug. It finally got fixed with the Spring Creators Update, so now I can sleep my computer again! (side note/separate complaint, windows 10 tries to update one driver repeatedly, every time I check. I wish there were some way to disable that update.)