I want to close the lid without it going to sleep

I want to close the lid of my MacBook without it going to sleep so i can leave things going overnight e.g. moving large files. Does anyone know how to do this? I dont want leave the lid open as it will burn the screen out.
Please help.

Why don't you have your screen set to power off after a certain amount of time? System Preferences->Energy Saver. There are 3rd party utilites that will allow you to disable sleep when closing the lid.....but if your only concern is "burning out" your screen....seems kind of pointless to me when you can just have the display go to sleep.

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Well hello there, and welcome to Macintosh.
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