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Re: Freeware to shut down a laptop when lid is closed

Subject: Re: Freeware to shut down a laptop when lid is closed
From: John Corliss
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:37:58 -0700
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware


Sul@Motzarella wrote:
John Corliss wrote:
canetoad wrote:
John Corliss wrote:
My friend's laptop will only go to Stand By or Hibernate. Is there a program that will add the capability to completely shut down or which will cause the computer to be shut down when the lid is shut?

I Googled and could find nothing.

TIA.

What about new desktop shortcut with this as the target: C:\WINDOWS\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 0

Thanks, but I've already done that one. My friend's wife said that her daughter's computer was set up to turn off when the lid was closed. IIRC, some older laptops will do that. My friend's wife thought it was a program of some kind that made it possible. Hoped somebody knew about a freeware that would do it.

right click on the Desktop and select properties
Screen saver | Power tab

Thanks, but I know all about "Power Options Properties". You click on the "Advanced" tab and there's a dropdown for what happens when you close the lid on a laptop (the option isn't there for a desktop). As shown on this page:

  http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/maintain/powermgmt.mspx

just a little past half way down, you have three options for "When I close the lid of my portable computer":

1. Do nothing
2. Stand by
3. Hibernate

What I'm looking for is something that will add the option to "Shut down".

By the way, here's one for you - Regardless of what kind of computer you have, desktop or laptop, *don't* create a power scheme and then try to delete it. You'll usually lose all the power schemes except for two very basic ones. Getting them back requires going into the registry and deleting some stuff. Don't ask me how I know this.

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