PSA: Your watch band may be messing with your laptop – magnetic clasps can cause lid sensors to lock your PC
- ID
- 9393
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 30 Jul 2026, 11:09 PM
- Fetched
- 31 Jul 2026, 10:38 AM
- Provider
- Tom's Hardware
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/psa-your-watch-band-may-be-messing-with-your-laptop-magnetic-clasps-can-cause-lid-sensors-to-lock-your-pc
- Source URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds/all
Excerpt
It’s likely a niche issue, but I discovered recently that my magnetic watch clasp was confusing an Acer laptop into thinking I was closing and opening the lid, causing me to repeatedly get logged out of Windows just as I tried to type.
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