Samsung Series 9: Lid Close?

From the Samsung website:

"You no longer have to shut down your Samsung computer, just close its lid and it goes into a special powerless sleep mode. When you open the lid your computer comes back to life in 3 seconds and you are exactly at the same place as when you shut the lid. Fast Start saves your data and system configurations to your hard drive and PC memory. So, when you power it back on it is just like you left it."

Does that mean that we can't control the lid-close action? On most Windows laptops you can configure the lid-close action to do anything you want or nothing.

 

Unless you know how to set powercfg ACLs, that is correct. It is locked down and even Admins are prevented from modifying the setting easily.

It seems they are preventing you from running the machine with the lid closed. Looking at the thermals and the venting under the lid opening, it appears to be designed this way on purpose.

Reminds me of the Macs.

 

That's a really weird design feature. I frequently use my laptop as a source of music (plugged into speakers) with the lid closed for convenience!

 

You can run music with the lid close, but you need to disable the Samsung Fast Start. After you've done that, just go to power settings and under "lid close action" change it to "do nothing". If you dont disable the fast start, the "lid close action" will always be locked to 'sleep"

 

This didn't work for me. I even uninstalled the easyspeedup manager and it made no difference.

I also tried:
powercfg -setacvalueindex 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936 000

but was denied access (despite being logged in as administrator and running cmd under administrator)

What WAS successful for me was the local security policy editor which I invoked with
Start-Run-gpedit.msc

Then I navigated to:
Computer Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - Power Management - Button Settings
You can then set the lid options in there for both battery and plugged in

Sam

 

The irony is that Samsung 9 series comes with windows 7 home premium, which does not have group policy editor. So I'm currently trying to figure out a way to edit it using regedit

 

hmm cant find any keys in regedit, anybody has any ideas that doesnt require a complete reinstall of windows 7 pro?

 

Although a solution is to switch fast start off to access the "do nothing" option for the lid close action, part of my problem was finding it. I don't know if it was because of my upgrade to windows 7 but wherever I looked I couldn't find it.

Eventually I found you can access the control centre using Fn+f1 and from there disable fast start.

As for the registry entries I didn't have much luck with the one that I thought would control it:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Power\PowerSettings\4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347\5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936\DefaultPowerSchemeValues


However this is the entry for the group policy editor for the AC setting on "Balanced". I don't know if it will work if you add it into the registry on a windows 7 home machine but it is:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\{86ABBE2A-86ED-4DE5-91DB-C0295709B7ED}Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\5CA83367-6E45-459F-A27B-476B1D01C936

You will need to add a new DWORD value name "AcSettingIndex" and set it to 0

There is an identical entry in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\5CA83367-6E45-459F-A27B-476B1D01C936
which you might also need to set

I have no idea whether that will work!