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Three Triggers for Sleep/Shut Down—and How to

Change Them

You now know how to trigger the Sleep command using the in the Start

menu. But there are even faster ways.

If you have a laptop, just close the lid. If it’s a tablet, tap its Sleep switch. If

you have a desktop PC, press its power button ( ). In each of these cases,
though—menu, lid, switch, or button—you can decide whether the
computer shuts down, goes to sleep, hibernates, or just ignores you.

To find the factory setting that controls what happens when you close the

lid or hit the power button, click in the “Type here to search” box and
search for lid. In the search results, the top hit is “Change what closing the
lid does.” Press Enter to select it.

Note
You can get to the same options by opening Control Panel → Hardware and Sound → Power
Options → System Settings.

Now you arrive at the “Define power buttons” screen of the old Control

Panel. Here, for each option (pressing the power button; pressing the Sleep
button, if you have one; closing the lid), you can choose “Sleep,” “Do
nothing,” “Hibernate,” “Shut down,” or “Turn off the display.” And you can

set up different behaviors for when the machine is plugged in and when it’s
running on battery power.

Tip

You can also restart, shut down, lock, or sign out of your computer with Cortana; see Figure 5-4.

Navigating the Start Menu by Keyboard