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How to keep my laptop from waking while the lid is closed?
1. Open Control Panel > Power Options
Click “Change Plan Settings” next to the current power plan
Select “Change Advanced Power Settings”
Expand “Power Buttons and Covers” > “Close cover operation”
Battery Mode: Set to “Hibernate” or “Power Off”.
Power on: Same as above
Click on Apply → OK
2. In Advanced Power Settings:
Expand “Sleep” > “Allow Wake Timer”.
Battery and Power are both set to “Disable”.
3. Run Command Prompt as administrator and type:
cmd
powercfg -devicequery wake_armed
List the devices that can wake the computer (e.g. mouse, keyboard)
4. Disable specific devices:
cmd
powercfg -devicedisablewake “device name”
5. Open Device Manager > System Devices
Right click on “Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery”.
Select “Update Driver” or “Rollback Driver”.
6. Press Win + R and type regedit
Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power
Create a new DWORD (32-bit) named “LidReliability” and set the value to 1
Reboot your computer