Laptop changes closing lid power options based on media/music playing

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Published on 2011-01-11T05:17:35Z Indexed on 2011/01/11 5:55 UTC
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Hi,

This is on a Lenovo X60 running Windows 7 Professional.

This is just a pet peeve of mine, but I was wondering if it were somehow possible to have my laptop autodetect whether any media/music is playing on and change/switch the "Close lid" options under Power Options, ie. when something is playing change state to "Do Nothing" otherwise change state to "Sleep".

I guess I can probably set a some key combo up with AutoHotKey to do it, but was hoping Windows could detect and switch my Power Options automatically.

Thanks.

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