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Prevent display from switching when laptop lid is closed?

Anonymous
2009-07-13T22:23:07+00:00

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to prevent display switching when I close the lid of my laptop. On my old laptop, under Windows XP, I could open the lid while watching a movie on a secondary display (TV) e.g. to check something on the web on laptop's monitor - displays remained as they were. But under Vista, every time I close or open the lid, display switches to TV and laptop accordingly and the whole process takes quite some time. This behavior remains the same even after disabling TMM in Vista.

Is there any solution to this issue?

Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous
2011-12-23T07:05:18+00:00

VERY EASY SOLUTION:

  1. open device manager
  2. in "System devices" find "ACPI lid"
  3. Open "ACPI lid" properties, and go to "Driver" tab.
  4. Select "Update driver"
  5. Choose "Browse my computer for driver software" and "Let me pick.."

uncheck "Show compatible hardware"

  1. And now...in "Manufacturer" select "(Standard system devices)" and model:

"Volume manager" (yes, "Volume manager")

  1. next, next, restart the system and it works!

ON WINDOWS 7 x64

( Post Found: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1421975 )

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-09-07T14:56:22+00:00

    The display switching problem still exists with windows 10, but the device "volume manager" isn't available to select.  Is there a solution for windows 10 users?

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-05-30T12:12:42+00:00

    Hello!

    I have the same problem. I watch a movie on one screen and i do not want to switch monitor, when I close the lid, but it does. 

    Standard SP3 does not do this feature, I installed some updates, probably it's in there somewhere, but the "windows quick fix no 25543151" is not that talkative

    In win7 there was a solution to create a reg key named LidAlwaysOpen = 1 (somewhere in currentControlSet), but I switched back to XP because the lack of support of the ATI drivers.

    So in XP SP3 is there a way, to disable monitor switching when lid closed? SP2 did that the way it was supposed to, I can not understand why they changed it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-03-18T04:55:23+00:00

    Almost two years, and seems like this problem is not fixed :-(

    I am running into the same behavior on Win7. I hope someone at micorosoft is looking at fixing it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2009-07-17T14:04:06+00:00

    My laptop is ASUS N50Vn. The option for closing the lid is set to 'do nothing'. I think the issue is Vista itself which thinks that when I close the lid the laptop's screen is removed so it switches desktop to the reamining display, i.e. TV. This happens the other way aroud when I open the lid again and desktop is again switched to laptop's sceen which had reappeared. This would also explain the 'disconnect/connect' sound like e.g. when pluggin/unplugging USB device that can be heard when laptop's lid is closed/opened.

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