If you miss the full size and action of a real PC keyboard, get one! Just plug it into your laptop, either into the keyboard port or a USB port, whichever is available. You can start using the keyboard the second it’s plugged in.
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Note that adding an external keyboard often doesn’t disable the laptop’s internal keyboard. You can use both! But you’re probably not crazy enough to do that.
When you’re done using the full-size keyboard, simply unplug it.
While it is not always necessary to run laptop with lid closed and connect it to an external monitor screen, in most of the cases, the laptop is connected to the external monitor when closing the lid. In this article, we will discuss two things:
How To Use External Keyboard
When we connect to an external display, normally we use the external display as an extension to the laptop LCD. But when it is not required and we are only using an external display, it would be better to close the laptop lid to save power and extend laptop battery.
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Connecting laptop to an external display
To connect your laptop with the screen you need to have an able that connects the laptop with the external monitor, this cable is called an HDMI cable. While you can also use other means to connect to an external display like VGA, DisplayPort and DVI port, HDMI is the most used digital port of all.
Both the monitor and the laptop need HDMI connector port. Just insert one side in your laptop and other in the monitor and everything on your laptop is now displayed on the monitor as well.
HDMI port – Female
Change Display Settings to enable 2nd display
To make changes on the display. Press Windows Key + P which will open the Project menu. You will see four options:
All options are pretty self-explanatory. To connect to an external display and turn off the laptop display, you will select the fourth option “2nd screen only”.
Project to additional screen in Windows 10
Adjusting the audio output settings
The advantage of using HDMI is that you can also stream audio through the monitor device. For example, if you are connecting an LED TV, it will have the capability of streaming audio in addition to video from the laptop. Just follow the steps below to enable audio through HDMI device.
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Now you will get the sound from the monitor if it has speaker or an audio/video peripheral.
Volume Mixer
Run laptop with lid closed without shutting down or hibernating
After connecting the laptop with the monitor you would want to close the lid of your laptop but not shut it down as it will stop displaying everything on the monitor and furthermore it also helps you to save some battery on your laptop.
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Now you can close the lid and still the display on external display won’t be disturbed. This is the easiest way to run laptop with lid closed.
For me this option is very useful as I keep my laptop running all the time. I have selected to do nothing when I close the lid while the laptop is connected to the power source. This helps me save power as well as I can use external monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse.
What do you do when you want to run the laptop with lid closed?
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