Do you work from home and need to make sure that your toddler does not send a mangled email to the whole organization while you fix yourself a snack? Do you have a prank-prone team around your desk, like I do? Then you need to make sure your laptop does lock when you close the lid, and this can be an issue, especially for some Windows 10 users. Follow these simple steps to identify the root of your problem and fix it.
FIX: Laptop not locking when closed
First, you need to check the default settings that establish what happens when you close the lid. Follow these steps to modify the System Settings:
1. Modify the Power Options
If your laptop is still unlocked when it wakes up from sleep, you should make sure you have the right Sign-in options enabled. Here is how to do that:
2. Modify the Sign-in options
3. Edit the Screen Saver options
If the above steps did not help, have a look at your screen saving settings:
4. Run the Troubleshooter
Sometimes you need a thorough system check and that’s when the Windows built-in troubleshooter comes in handy. Here is how to access it:
What if I just want the laptop to lock?
Windows 10 has had mixed reports about its abilities to recover from sleep. What if you simply want to lock the laptop when closing the lid, without entering a Sleep or Hibernate state? There is a third party software that can help with that, called Lid Lock. It is free to use and although the original developer website location is currently unavailable, you have a safe download source on Softpedia. After you install the tool, you can access it from System Tray. As long as you make sure Lid Lock loads at the same time with Windows, you don’t need to further configure it.
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