[How To] Turn Off Windows 7 By Closing Lid

It’s very annoying for you if your Windows 7 is taking too long time for shut down. We’ve already discussed how to shrink this shut down time in the

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It’s very annoying for you if your Windows 7 is taking too long time for shut down. We’ve already discussed how to shrink this shut down time in the following article:

[FIX] Windows 7 Taking Long Time To Shut Down

Today, in this article we’re going to tell you yet another cool tip to automatically turn off your Windows 7 when you just unwrap the notebook. So without wasting any more time in talks, lets start the task…

How To : Turn Off Windows 7 By Closing Lid

1. Open Control Panel, choose the System and Security option.

2. Select the Power Options in the window opened next.

3. Now pick the Choose what closing the lid does option in the left pane.

4. Now look for the drop down menus against When I close the lid section. Select Shut down in On battery and Plugged in column. That’s it.

Now Windows will automatically shut down when you close the laptop lid. This should work on Windows 8 too.

That’s it!

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Kapil Arya
11x Microsoft MVP · Admin

Kapil holds Microsoft MVP title in Windows IT Pro expertise, 11-times in a row (2014-2025). He is 8-times Windows Insider MVP as well, and author of 'Windows Group Policy Troubleshooting' book. In 2015, Microsoft India accomplished him as 'Windows 10 Champion'. Being passionate Windows blogger, he loves to help others on fixing their system issues. Kapil has worked with official Microsoft Community Engagement Team (CET) on several community projects. You can subscribe him for news/updates and fixes for Windows.

8 Comments
andre

nice tip, but I knew it already. thanks 4 reminding :)

schloicka

Hi mr. kapil.. i’m using win 7 professional but gettin error on running task manager ,showing some weird disable error what to do ??????

Kapil Arya Author

^^ Are you the administrator of OS? Also give me the exact error which you are getting.

schloicka

ya i’m d administrator it is saying the task manager is disabled by admin

Kapil Arya Author

^^ It seems that any 3rd party software has chocked task manager or it is some kind of malware. Try this

Delete DisableTaskMgr DWORD from following branch locations using Registry Editor (regedit.exe):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem

HKEY_USERS.defaultSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem

If you are really facing this problem, you must found DisableTaskMgr :)

Micheal

@ Kapil, Thanks for the tip man!

and @schloicka, run sfc /scannow command and reboot #

schloicka

thanks guys.. FIXED Now!!!!!!!!

prajoy

thank u for sharing

good article

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