Why do you put the laptop to sleep then close the lid? closing the lid automatically puts it to sleep. On 11/25/03 11:51 PM, "Robert Nicholson" <robert at elastica.com> paused, thought it over, and wrote: > Today I did the following. > > Put the computer to sleep then close the computer's lid which > subsequently awakes the computer. Normally this isn't a problem as it > should go back to sleep however if you have password when awake from > sleep it doesn't appear to sleep again > until you've entered in your password. thus keeping power to your > screen whilst > it's closed. That is generally not a good thing. > >