- OT Laptops on BBC Tv Consumer programme.
- Posted by David on June 16th, 2008
Each morning on BBC1 there is "Don't get done, get Dom", Dom uses a laptop
and in each programme he just closes the laptop lid down my OT question is
is this ok to do?
I always click my Close computer and click Shut down and wait.
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Regards,
David
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- Posted by Rex M F Smith on June 16th, 2008
In message <_2q5k.188547$zc6.120998@newsfe29.ams2>, David
<david.park@tesco.net> writes
Difference between "off" and "hibernate/sleep"
There are switches that cause the machines to sleep, engaged when the
lid is closed
sometimes as simple as a switch in the well where the catches engage ...
?do "off" machines with bad batteries catch fire?
!
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Rex M F Smith
- Posted by Carl Waring on June 16th, 2008
David wrote:
Should be fine.
Display Properties/Screensaver/Power/Advanced should get to you the options
of what to do when you press the power button or close the lid. Take you
pick!
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- Posted by Steve Terry on June 16th, 2008
"David" <david.park@tesco.net> wrote in message
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or do nothing and keep running
Steve Terry
- Posted by pjlusenet@yahoo.co.uk on June 16th, 2008
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:06:56 +0100, "David" <david.park@tesco.net>
wrote:
It's TV world - he's probably getting ready for "Take 2"!
In Windows you can usually tell a laptop what to do when the lid is
closed. e.g. go into Standby or Hibernate
I used to have a laptop that went into Hibernate whenever I closed the
lid. It saved the machines state, including memory, onto disk. When
you switched it on it carried on from exactly where you left it. If
the battery ran out in the meantime it still remembered what was
there.
The big advantage was it switched on quicker than a normal power-on.
However, with my newer laptops Hibernate doesn't work. I think because
it can't cope with the extra RAM I use - but I could be wrong.
- Posted by Jon on June 16th, 2008
In article <_2q5k.188547$zc6.120998@newsfe29.ams2>, david.park@tesco.net
says...
Set your power options in control panel. You cna have hte computer od
anything (or nothing) when you close the lid.
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Regards
Jon
- Posted by Mark McIntyre on June 16th, 2008
David wrote:
Check out the power options in control panel - you can configure what
happens when you press various buttons or shut the lid.
My laptop is configured to shutdown when I close the lid. I avoid
carrying it anywhere till the lights go out.
