And like many options, they’re in Control Panel.įire up Control Panel and double click on Power Options. Windows includes a fairly robust, if somewhat confusing, array of power management options. The default configuration for most laptops these days is to go into Standby, or even Hibernation, when the laptop is closed.įortunately, it’s just a setting you can control in Windows. It’s probably not the internet that’s stopping it’s the entire computer.