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I've got a new T61p with Vista Ultimate. The notebook automatically resumes when I open the lid, after sleep or hibernate. I prefer pressing the power button when I'm ready for it to resume. Do any of you know where I would find such a setting. I had my previous Toshiba setup that way with XP.

Interesting...I'm not sure, maybe I'm doing something that disables this on my own laptops without knowing it (if you tell it not to sleep on lid close, does that also disable waking up on lid open? because I disable sleep on lid close first-thing on any new TP acquisition), but my ThinkPads that I've owned have never woken up on lid open. I always have to hit power or hold down Fn in order to get it to wake up.

You might try turning off suspend on lid close to see if it also disables the opposite action as well (waking up on lid open). It might also be that it isn't that setting in-and-of-itself that disables waking on lid open, but is perhaps simply the action of manually suspending the computer (through Fn-F4 or through Windows) that prevents opening the lid from waking up the computer, rather than allowing the closing of the lid to initiate the suspend action.

-- Nathan

well if it doesn't sleep when you close the lid then it will stay on all the time and get hot and if you're using it on battery, would certainly killy your battery. If you rather you can set the system to Hibernate when you close the lid insteaad of Sleep.

That would require you pressing the power button to turn it back on but it wouldn't come back as fast as when you put it to sleep.

rstander wrote:The notebook automatically resumes when I open the lid, after sleep or hibernate.

This shouldn't happen if the laptop has really gone into hibernation. When it's hibernating, does the "moon" symbol stay lit? If it does, the machine has gone into sleep mode, not hibernation, which explains why it wakes up as soon as you open the lid.

SHoTTa35 wrote:well if it doesn't sleep when you close the lid then it will stay on all the time

Obviously. I made the conscious decision to have the laptop NOT go to sleep when I close the lid as I often have a valid reason for wanting the lid closed but have the laptop remain on (say, I have to go out for a bit and want to conserve the backlight, but the computer is in the middle of doing something...or I have the computer hooked up to an external monitor...or I want to move location and prefer not to wait for the laptop to wake up again after I'm settled). Usually, those reasons involve leaving it on AC power, so my battery does NOT deplete itself.

If someone else also chooses to use this option, it is implied that they will have to manually initiate sleep if they actually want the laptop to go to sleep before closing the lid. Hitting Fn-F4 takes all of two extra seconds to do.

-- Nathan

I was wrong in my original post. It does require me to press the power button when I hibernate, but obviously not when I sleep.

Thanks for all the replies. Think I will just hibernate from now on. Conserves my battery in any case.