Asus laptop - can I stop sleeping when lid is closed

[enchant]

When I close the lid on my Asus X75A-DS31 laptop, it goes to sleep. This is fine 99% of the time, but sometimes I'll queue up a long process, like encoding a video for a couple hours, and I'd like to let the process continue while I have the lid closed.

I don't want to reconfigure it to always stay awake when closed, but something like holding down on the control key when closing the lid.

Is anything like this possible?

 

[Tibbs01]

Just go to your power settings and on the left side there is a link that says something like choose what closing the lid does and you can set your options from there (do nothing, sleep, hibernate, shutoff are your options).

Edit: Sorry I missed part of your question, I am not aware of any hotkeys you can use to resleep it if you select the stay awake option other than to set a short push of your power button to hibernate/wake it under choose what the power button does settings.

 

[enchant]

Thanks, but that's really not what I'm looking for. I want something that is NON-permanent. That is, just do it this time.

 

[Tibbs01]

The only other thing I can think of is you can probably write a "keep alive" batch file for the particular software you want this functionality tied to. I have done this to keep computers from sleeping while printing only for instance.

 

[enchant]

That's an interesting idea. Let me research that. Thanks!

 

[jarotech]

Hi, you have the program Don't Sleep, I don't know if it will work when the lid is close, you can try it : http/download.cnet.com/Don-t-Sleep/3000-2094_4-75179809.html