{"id":2670,"date":"2024-09-12T18:48:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2024-09-12T20:06:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:06:02","slug":"win-11-keep-laptop-graphics-on-when-lid-closed-for-vpn-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2024\/09\/12\/win-11-keep-laptop-graphics-on-when-lid-closed-for-vpn-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Win 11 keep laptop graphics on when lid closed, wake with mouse or keyboard issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>One way to solve this is to use a bogus HDMI display (a HDMI plug that mimics a display but with no image at all). It works Ok. Link:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rads.stackoverflow.com\/amzn\/click\/com\/B06XT1Z9TF\">HDMI Dummy Plug,Headless Ghost, Display Emulator<\/a><br>A 2nd solution is a bit more obscure but doesn&#8217;t involve using any additional hardware. <strong>You need to break the ACPI driver in Windows&#8217; Device Manager by changing (&#8220;updating&#8221;) its driver to a non-compatible one (any one from the list). This way the ACPI function will simply won&#8217;t work and won&#8217;t turn off the display.<\/strong><\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/1741116\/keep-remote-access-software-working-when-laptop-lid-closes\">https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/1741116\/keep-remote-access-software-working-when-laptop-lid-closes<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Win 11 not waking with mouse or keyboard, only power switch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe I have found the definitive solution to this problem. You need to actually locate which device is your mouse\/keyboard and allow it to wake the computer from sleep mode. Unfortunately, this is an issue that affects many users and there isn&#8217;t an easy solution from Windows, even in the most recent versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Press Windows + R and type devmgmt.msc &#8211; This will open Device Manager<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Look for Human Interface Devices and locate your keyboard\/mouse device. If you don&#8217;t know exactly which one it is, you can try disabling all of them and, through the process of elimination, find yours.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Right-click on the device and click on properties, then click on the power management tab and uncheck &#8211; The computer can turn off the device to save power.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do this with all keyboard\/mouse devices. They may be located in other categories such as &#8220;Mouse and other pointing devices&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way to solve this is to use a bogus HDMI display (a HDMI plug that mimics a display but with no image at all). It works Ok. Link:&nbsp;HDMI Dummy Plug,Headless Ghost, Display EmulatorA 2nd solution is a bit more obscure but doesn&#8217;t involve using any additional hardware. You need to break the ACPI driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}