guys, is it possible to resume my laptop from hibernation or to turn it on by just opening its lid?? I use an HCL Q21 laptop with windows 7. my friend is using a sony-vaio laptop and he resumes his laptop by raising his lid only... how can i do the same in my laptop?? help me out....

All I can say, is I have hibernation, and sleep completely disabled. But if I close the lid, then open it again later, the desktop comes up as normal :(

This and other related settings are customizable under Power Configuration, which you'll find as an applet in Control Panel. Hope you'd figure out the rest.

Sorry for being so concise. Yes, you've found the correct option set. The only setting available is for closing the lid, not for opening it. What opening of the lid would do is determined automatically by Windows based on the option you've selected for closing it. In this case, since you chose hibernation to start on closing the lid, the corresponding action for opening the lid would be resumption from hibernation. This is not actually happening in your case. This probably means either your hardware doesn't support that function or it's not enabled in your system board setup.

If you feel comfortable with it, try checking the power Configuration options in your system board setup. If no go, probably you're out of luck. But that's just my opinion.

Thanks for reading. Good luck.

It is true what algotechie is telling you.

In simple terms, it actually goes like this. When you close the lid, the hardware sends a signal to the OS. The OS interprets it and acts according to the option you've given. When the lid is opened again, the hardware sends another signal (different from the one sent when the lid is closed). The OS on intercepting this signal then performs the corresponding action. So it's actually a combination of both hardware and software that makes this possible.

In your case, closing the lid probably doesn't send the signal to the OS. You need to send that via some other button like the power button. (Notice that the other options, sans hibernation, that you set for closing the lid are also not being reversed on opening the lid.)

Any software that can set such options has to intercept the signal of opening the lid from the OS. So if the hardware doesn't have the capability, the software cannot do it, either. Hope you got the point.

ya... i got it.

But surely the switch is ok since the laptop goes into hibernation on closing the lid in the first place, right? Maybe your BIOS will have options for this switch.

@LH, neither my switch is broken nor my "Choose what closing the lid does" is out of order. Actually m asking for "opening the lid" not closing.

Mine has 3 options. Do nothing, Sleep, and Shutdown.