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MilesAhead:
A poster on another forum wanted software that would cause his Laptop to just lock the screen rather than sleep.  After looking around it seemed not trivial to do.  I found a working script on AutoIt3 forums. I tried it on my Laptop and it worked.  If any Laptop owners think it may be handy to have the thread is here:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/128008-monitor-laptop-lid-state/

On Windows 8 you may have to stick
#RequireAdmin at the top of the script.  To run or compile you'll need the latest stable AutoIt3 available from the sames site as the forum.

Edit: note that to use it you should first set your power options for Lid Close to Do Nothing.

4wd:
You can also get a small program to do it from here: http://akhaliq.com/?p=198

MilesAhead:
You can also get a small program to do it from here: http://akhaliq.com/?p=198
-4wd (December 07, 2013, 03:55 PM)
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Thanks for the reply.  I found that but the poster was paranoid as it seemed like an exe in a zip out of nowhere.  He flat out refused to run it(for which I can't criticize him.)

4wd:
Uh OK, I found it though the Microsoft forums but it's also mentioned on various others, (SuperUser, eightforums, etc), and a couple of the users had checked it out, (for nasty stuff), and it came up OK.

Still, surprising MS hasn't thought to include this functionality.

MilesAhead:
Uh OK, I found it though the Microsoft forums but it's also mentioned on various others, (SuperUser, eightforums, etc), and a couple of the users had checked it out, (for nasty stuff), and it came up OK.

Still, surprising MS has thought to include this functionality.
-4wd (December 07, 2013, 06:31 PM)
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I don't have any C# on this machine yet or I may have played around with the source that was on the blog.  Yeah you could do some cool things with the switches.  Even something simple like a delay, then sleep(if I can think of a reason for the delay.)  If nothing else the standard whoopie cushion audio file may be apropos.  :)

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