Make windows honor my setting to do nothing when I close the lid of my computer

The issue is that the setting in the control panel is not changing the attribute in the registry. This could be due to a group policy, a third party power management tool, or a windows bug.

1. run the following command in a cmd prompt to see what power settings are being honored by your system: PowerCfg /q
2. Find the GUID setting for closing your lid. For me its

   Subgroup GUID: 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347
   Power Setting GUID: 5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936 Notice the current setting is 1. That means it will sleep when the lid is closed.

3. Open regedit. (You can search for it in the start menu)
4. Go to the following entry: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347\5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936
5. Change the Attributes Key to have a DWORD value of 0
6. If you want to change the other power profiles you can go into the DefaultPowerSchemeValues subfolder and change those Attributes values to be 0 as well