#TURN ON LAPTOP WITH LID CLOSED DRIVERS#
#TURN ON LAPTOP WITH LID CLOSED UPDATE#

I have no idea what other functions this might disable. As an added benefit, with the Basic Display Driver selected for the ACPI Lid, you can now disable the device which will hopefully keep it from updating, repairing, etc. In your device manager this shows as having an error which is fine since you don't want the ACPI Lid device to do what it's doing.

Hit next, okay, whatever until it's finished.

Click on Microsoft Basic Display Driver.

#TURN ON LAPTOP WITH LID CLOSED DRIVERS#

Click on Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer.Click on Browse my comptuer for Driver Software.He recommended changing the 'ACPI lid' device driver to 'volume manager' driver, but I changed it to Microsoft Basic Display Driver and it appears to fix the issue with shutting the lid as well: I found an interesting thread, here, where the guy basically sabotages the ACPI lid device under system devices in device manager. For some, it's as simple as finding and turning off the display accelerator, but on my laptops, there is no option for this. According to one thread, here, on the TeamViewer support site, the GPU no longer generates a display for the mirror driver to display.

#TURN ON LAPTOP WITH LID CLOSED UPDATE#

The remote control session starts, you can see the screen, but some windows show nothing, some show an initial image and then don't update as you click on things. With the new laptop, even though the power setting for do nothing when lid is closed is set, when the lid is closed, the remote session does not properly update the screen. This has worked well until we added a new laptop. The Problem: For multiple years, we have been using laptops with the lid closed as a remote workstation. This only seems to be an issue on newer laptops and since newer laptops mean Windows 10, it might also be related to Windows 10 or one of it's updates. With the new laptop, even though the power setting for do nothing when lid is closed is set, when the lid is closed, the remote session does not properly update the screen. I've confirmed this affects logmein, TeamViewer, and AVAST premium remote control. I just found a solution, and want to post it here so someone else with the same problem might have an easier time finding a solution: I ran into this problem months back, but took the quick fix since I couldn't find a solution and told the customer to just keep the laptop lid open.

Turn on laptop with lid closed