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My old desktop is painfully slow, so I am switching over to use my son’s Sony VAIO laptop. But I have eye issues which requires I use a large-screen monitor, so I am trying to set the laptop up as a desktop. So far, I have been successful in attaching the monitor and external mouse/keyboard to the laptop using HDMI & USB ports. For security, I have also hooked-up an Ethernet cord directly from my router to the laptop, rather than use Wi-Fi. My next step will be to hook-up the printer, hopefully. The only problem I have yet to resolve is how to be able to turn on the laptop & then keep it from going to sleep when I shut the laptop (having the laptop’s screen open & on while using the external monitor’s screen instead bothers my eyes.) I want to be able to turn off or put the laptop to sleep “on-demand”, but otherwise be able to close the laptop cover and keep it “on” (and not going to sleep or shutting-down) while I am working on it as a “desktop”. I thought I changed the settings correctly based on a video or 2 I saw online about converting a laptop to a desktop, but it doesn’t seem to work. Deskspace is limited, and I had hoped to close the laptop lid & set my keyboard on top of it while I work. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
If you are using windows, open the control panel and get into the power options, you will want to get into the advanced power options, once in there you will find a setting called lid close action. Open that and change it to do nothing. You can then save your changes and you should be able to close the lid without the display shutting off on you.
