Windows 10: "Slide to shutdown" appears when I open the laptop lid, won't go away and laptop shuts down

Hi everyone,

This problem has been frustrating me for a while, as I keep losing work over and over again because of this problem :

So the issue is that every time after I close the lid and open it back again, the 'Slide to Shutdown' screen appears, and whether I slide up, down, sideways, or do nothing, the laptop ends up shutting down anyway. This happens both when I open the lid while the laptop is in sleep mode and when I open it while the laptop is awake see pictures below. It also happens occasionally while I'm working on the laptop and the lid moves a bit.


I have tried a number of workarounds to no avail:


1. Disable 'Slide to shutdown': There are a bunch of 'solutions' on the web that instruct you to run control panel->troubleshooting->improve power usage, and it supposedly should do the trick. This does not work.


2. Find an option to disable the 'Slide to shutdown' script: This either doesn't exist or I have not come across that.


3. Disable the lid switch in BIOS: I disabled the lid switch and yet this problem still persists.


4. Set 'close lid', 'power/sleep button' actions to 'do nothing': The problem still persists after I do this.


5. Disabled touchscreen: This does not help either.


6. Every possible combination of the above: Still nothing.



I hope some of you can provide some useful pointers to hopefully sort this issue :


Photos to describe what happens:


1. Laptop working all well



2. I close the lid



3. I open it back again



4. Everything seems okay...



5. Then 'slide to shutdown' appears. Whether I slide up, down, sideways tried with touchscreen and mouse, or do nothing at all, it still shuts down.



6. A dead laptop



:)

 

How to force shutdown on laptop lid close ?

Hi,
I want to force a shutdown when the user close the laptop lid even if MSWord is open and the document was not saved.
Any suggestion ?

Regards

 

How to force shutdown on laptop lid close ?

Welcome to the forum
If you are saying that the laptop won't shutdown because you need to choose an option to save MSWord or not then I don't think it's possible to change that procedure when the lid is closed. But, maybe someone knows a registry hack or something to accomplish it
If you want to force all running apps and software to close without saving then a Command Prompt shortcut is probably the easiest.
See the Shutdown tutorial Option 8 and decide which Command Prompt is best for you, it will probably be

shutdown /s /f /t 0


Note Immediately force running apps to close, and then performs a full shutdown of the computer.
or
shutdown /s /hybrid /f /t 0


Note Immediately force running applications to close, and then performs a shutdown of the computer and prepares it for fast startup.
• Copy the Command Prompt
• Right click on an empty space on the Desktop
• Select New > Shortcut
• Paste the Command Prompt in the location box
• Next
• The name shutdown should appear in the box, edit that if you want
• Finish
Move the shortcut to wherever you like and/or pin to Taskbar or Start

Shut Down Computer in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Laptop Opening lid function

Hi Wilfred,

Thanq so much for replying to my question.

I used the same website and I tried all the guidelines given by them.

But after doing so, when I shut down the laptop, it doesn't switch on when I open the lid. It only switches on once I press the power button.

It would be gr8 if any1 would give me the proper step-by-step guidelines on switching on the laptop by opening the lid.

Thank you,

Vaibhav Pramod