How to Change Default Lid Close Action in Windows 10

The Lid close action setting in Power Options lets users specify the default action to take when the laptop (system) lid is closed.

Users can specify one of the following actions to take: do nothing, sleep, hibernate, or shut down.

This tutorial will show you how to change the default action to take when closing the lid of your laptop in Windows 10.

Contents

• Option One: To Change Default Lid Close Action in Power Options
• Option Two: To Change Default Lid Close Action in Advanced Power Options
• Option Three: To Change Default Lid Close Action for Current Power Plan in Command Prompt
• Option Four: To Change Default Lid Close Action for Specific Power Plan in Command Prompt

OPTION ONE

To Change Default Lid Close Action in Power Options

1 Open Power Options. (see screenshot below)

2 Click/tap on the Choose what closing the lid does link on the left side. (see screenshot below)

3 In the When I close the lid drop menus, select the action you want, and click/tap on Save changes. (see screenshot below)

You will need to have already enabled hibernate to have the hibernate action available to select.

OPTION TWO

To Change Default Lid Close Action in Advanced Power Options

1 Open Advanced Power Options.

2 Expand open Power buttons and lid and Lid close action. (see screenshot below)

3 Select the action you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

You will need to have already enabled hibernate to have the hibernate action available to select.

OPTION THREE

To Change Default Lid Close Action for Current Power Plan in Command Prompt

You will need to have already enabled hibernate to be able to use hibernate as the default lid close action.

1 Open a command prompt.

2 Type the command below you want to use into the command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)

(On battery)
powercfg -setdcvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936 Index

OR

(Plugged in)
powercfg -setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936 Index

Substitute Index in the command above with the number below for the default action you want set for closing the lid.

For example:
powercfg -setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936 2

Index Number	Action
0	Do nothing
1	Sleep
2	Hibernate
3	Shut down

3 Copy and paste the powercfg -SetActive SCHEME_CURRENT command into the command prompt, and press Enter to apply the change. You can now close the command prompt if you like.

OPTION FOUR

To Change Default Lid Close Action for Specific Power Plan in Command Prompt

You will need to have already enabled hibernate to be able to use hibernate as the default lid close action.

1 Open a command prompt.

1 Copy and paste the powercfg /L command into the command prompt, and press Enter. Make note of the GUID number (ex: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c) of the power plan you want to apply this to. (see screenshot below)

The power plan (ex: High performance) with a * to the right of it is your current active power plan scheme.

3 Type the command below you want to use into the command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)

(On battery)
powercfg -setdcvalueindex GUID 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936 Index

OR

(Plugged in)
powercfg -setacvalueindex GUID 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936 Index

Substitute GUID in the command above with the actual GUID from step 2 above for the power plan you want to apply this to.

Substitute Index in the command above with the number below for the default action you want set for closing the lid.

For example: Set to "Hibernate" for the High performance power plan GUID (8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c)

powercfg -setacvalueindex 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936 2

Index Number	Action
0	Do nothing
1	Sleep
2	Hibernate
3	Shut down

4 Type the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter to apply the change. (see screenshot below)

powercfg -SetActive GUID

This command will set the power plan for the GUID as your active scheme. If you do not want this power plan to be set as your active scheme, then you can restart the computer to apply the changes instead of doing this step.

Substitute GUID in the command above with the same GUID from step 2 above for the power plan you want to apply this to.

For example: powercfg -SetActive 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c

That's it,
Shawn

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