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Alex Saad (ASaad)
Hello everyone,
I've been struggling to find a way to set the default power plan AND power mode for any new Windows 10 computers that get imaged through MDT. As far as I can tell, 'power plan' is the options you can see in the Control Panel, whereas 'power mode' is the different settings on the slider visible after clicking the battery icon in the system tray. What I would like to do is have the power plan set to Balanced and the power mode set to Better Battery regardless of whether or not the laptop is plugged into a charger.
If I take a snapshot of the registry on a particular computer, then manually adjust the power settings, and then take an additional registry snapshot to compare, there seem to be three registry entries that control these settings:
[Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\User\PowerSchemes]
"ActivePowerScheme"
"ActiveOverlayAcPowerScheme"
"ActiveOverlayDcPowerScheme"
'ActivePowerScheme' seems to be the setting you can adjust in the Control Panel, with the GUID "381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e" correlating to the 'Balanced' power plan. The other two registry keys represent the value of the slider after clicking the battery icon (one for battery, one for power adapter), with "961cc777-2547-4f9d-8174-7d86181b8a7a" correlating to the 'Better Battery' power mode.
If I try to edit the values for these keys through a .reg file or through various reg add commands I get access denied errors. I looked through Group Policy for a way to set this and there is a GPO that will set the value of 'ActivePowerScheme', but there is no GPO for the other two. When I image a computer right now, the power settings default to 'Balanced/Better performance'. Has anyone had success changing this value without having to go through each computer one at a time?
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I've been struggling to find a way to set the default power plan AND power mode for any new Windows 10 computers that get imaged through MDT. As far as I can tell, 'power plan' is the options you can see in the Control Panel, whereas 'power mode' is the different settings on the slider visible after clicking the battery icon in the system tray. What I would like to do is have the power plan set to Balanced and the power mode set to Better Battery regardless of whether or not the laptop is plugged into a charger.
If I take a snapshot of the registry on a particular computer, then manually adjust the power settings, and then take an additional registry snapshot to compare, there seem to be three registry entries that control these settings:
[Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\User\PowerSchemes]
"ActivePowerScheme"
"ActiveOverlayAcPowerScheme"
"ActiveOverlayDcPowerScheme"
'ActivePowerScheme' seems to be the setting you can adjust in the Control Panel, with the GUID "381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e" correlating to the 'Balanced' power plan. The other two registry keys represent the value of the slider after clicking the battery icon (one for battery, one for power adapter), with "961cc777-2547-4f9d-8174-7d86181b8a7a" correlating to the 'Better Battery' power mode.
If I try to edit the values for these keys through a .reg file or through various reg add commands I get access denied errors. I looked through Group Policy for a way to set this and there is a GPO that will set the value of 'ActivePowerScheme', but there is no GPO for the other two. When I image a computer right now, the power settings default to 'Balanced/Better performance'. Has anyone had success changing this value without having to go through each computer one at a time?
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