How do I change what the power button does when I press it?
In a previous video I made,
I mentioned that if you hit the power button on the computer, it puts it to sleep.
A bunch of trolls challenged me on that in the comments, making me second guess myself.
Although they're partially right, but in this video I'm going to show you some hard facts that no troll can deny.
So in this video, I'm going to show you how to check what your settings are
for when you hit the power button and how to change them.
there are many options that you can change for what the power button does when you press it,
and it may depend on the manufacturer who built the computer.
But the defaults from a plain installation of windows 10 will shut the computer off when you hit the power button.
but there's another option that almost no one talks about, that you may not know and can affect
the results of when you hit the power button.
So you'll have to stick through to the end of the video and I'll get into that feature.
Because unlike the trolls in the other video,
you don't want to assume that hitting the power button does one thing and it ends up doing the other.
because you know what they say, when you assume...
So what you want to do, is go down to your start button and go into the settings cog wheel.
Go up to System for the power settings, you go to power and sleep.
Over on the right side there's additional power settings.
That opens up the old traditional control panel menu.
So in the top here we'll click to choose what the power buttons do.
You'll see a few options here.
Being a laptop we've got a set of options for when it's on battery versus when it's plugged in.
We also have an option for what the computer does when you close the lid.
So let's go through these from the top.
When I press the power button, it wants to shut down by default;
and you can choose from five different options here.
You can tell it to do nothing at all which doesn't quite make sense.
But you could tell it to go to sleep, hibernate, actually shut down, or just turn the display off,
if you want to keep their computer running and turn off the display.
Although i find you can always just hit the power button on your monitor and that can work just as well.
When the computer goes to sleep, you have four options instead of the five.
The only option that's missing here is to shut down the computer.
Because if you want to shut it down you hit the power button.
If you want to do anything else, you can program the sleep button to do one of the other things.
When closing the lid, there's four options here as well and the only option that's missing in this menu is to turn off the display.
Because generally when you close the lid you can't see the screen anyway
and if you're not shutting the computer off and you're just closing a lid, it's probably because you have a docking station,
or an external monitor and you just don't want to be having that screen open, it gets in the way,
it's distracting, one of those things.
So you'll just close the lid and you want to keep the computer fully functional.
Now there's a few more options at the bottom here
You'll see the shutdown settings when the computer does shut down
there's turn on fast startup, which is recommended. I don't have this turned on;
and this is one of those secret features that I was mentioning earlier.
If you have this turned on which is on by default,
there's a couple of things to think about.
First of all when you shut down the computer it doesn't really shut down.
It goes to hibernate. That's why it will be able to start up faster.
Because it didn't really shut down like it normally does during the shutdown process.
Where it clears the memory, closes all apps and programs and everything.
In hibernation it keeps things open so it's still running and keeping the memory used
and it also means that windows updates may not work because it's not actually shutting down to restart the computer.
So it may not apply updates when you have this feature turned on.
Although I did do a test and it actually worked.
But it doesn't mean it will work every time.
There's a few more options here.
So you'll see sleep and hibernate that you can have them show in the power menu.
So that means when you click on the start button and go to power,
you'll see sleep, shut down, and restart.
If you want hibernate to be included in this list.
Then you can turn that on
and if you want to hide any of these others, like the sleep.
You can remove that from that menu. There's also lock to show in the account picture menu.
That's in the start menu, when you click on your picture.
There's change account settings, lock, and sign out.
So the lock feature is there by default. But if you don't want that to be there..
then you can simply uncheck that here.
and if you notice that these are all grayed out and you're not able to change these things.
If you pay attention up at the top here it says change settings that are currently unavailable.
You can click on that and now you're able to check and uncheck these options.
Now you know how to find out if your computer is doing what you expect it to be doing.
and how you can change that.
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Bye for now.