If my laptop is plugged in I want closing the lid to automatically lock the computer, without putting it to sleep. I don't see an option to do this in Power Options:
Is there a hack to achieve this?
Windows 10: How to Lock (not sleep) laptop on lid close
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Related Solutions
There is no built in way to do this, but you could use LidLock for this purpose. It is a GUI tool which can help you what you want to achieve. You can also set it to start automatically with Windows start-up.
You can also set the timer for sleep/hibernate after locking the laptop.
You can read more about this on this article.
I believe you can change some registry settings to have the PC lock when you shut the lid:
- Launch registry (start > regedit)
- Local the following: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Power
- Right Click > New > DWORD (32 bits)
- Rename it to AwayModeEnabled
- Select AwayModeEnabled > Right Click > Change value to 1 (hexadecimal)
- Go to Power Options and change the lid close action to Sleep.
This should have 'tricked' the OS into locking the PC when the lid is closed (rather than putting this to sleep).
Please backup your registry before making any changes just in case you change the wrong thing.
Best Answer
As far as I know, there is no built-in function to achieve this. But you can do this using a third party tool.
One of them is LapLock. This program is a lightweight (<50KB), open source tool and it's developed by Etienne Dechamps.
Steps...
Download the program - https://github.com/dechamps/laplock/releases
(Download the latest laplock.exe release)
Open the Windows Startup folder by using this run command - '
shell:common startup'Add laplock.exe to your Startup folder.
You can also use Lid Lock to do this.