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    Turn off display on lid close

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by Konstantinos Gkinis, Nov 9, 2016.

  1. Konstantinos Gkinis

    Konstantinos Gkinis Notebook Enthusiast

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    My previous laptop (an HP Elitebook workstation), automatically turned off the display when I closed the lid.

    I have a GS40 6QE that "doesn't". It does turn the display off, but Windows does not actually consider it off (if you lift the lid a bit, it's off). My power options do not have this: http://i.imgur.com/X07UMIH.png

    Anyone knows any way for windows to automatically disable the laptop's monitor?

    I'm on Win 10 pro, latest updates.
     
    Konstantinos Gkinis, Nov 9, 2016
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    Have you tried 'Change settings that are currently unavailable'?
     
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  3. Konstantinos Gkinis

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    That's removed in Win 10 unfortunately
     
    Konstantinos Gkinis, Nov 9, 2016
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    So the feature that what you wanted to enable no longer works?
     
    Kevin@GenTechPC, Nov 10, 2016
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  5. Konstantinos Gkinis

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    As you can see in this image: [​IMG]

    there is in some laptops that option. For some reason, on Win 10 for the GS40, this option doesn't exist.
     
    Konstantinos Gkinis, Nov 10, 2016
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    Have you actually clicked on the blue link in your screenshot, above Balanced [Active] that actually says: Change settings that are currently unavailable
     
    SAiLO, Nov 10, 2016
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    Ah sorry, I understood what confused you. That's the regular window in most laptops. Mine is like that:

    [​IMG]
     
    Konstantinos Gkinis, Nov 11, 2016
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