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Change Power mode in Windows 11 from command line

Anonymous
2022-09-21T12:12:38+00:00

Hi,

recently upgraded to Win 11. Changing the Power mode became less convenient, now I have to go to Settings and change it there :-(. That's a fail #3 (Microsoft).

To even come up with power modes when there already are Power plans, that's fail #2 (Microsoft). Way to confuse users, I'm 30years IT professional and cannot understand which one is for what and how they interact between them.

Anyhow, as a workaround, it would be great at least to be able to call a script/command to switch between Best power efficiency, Balanced and Best performance power modes.

Background: I have Lenovo Thinkpad T15 and I have to switch between the power modes, because the fan noise in the Best performance plan is unbearable. Even when CPU is loaded below 20%, nothing much is happening, the fan goes wild. And that's a major fail #1 (by Lenovo?), that is forcing me to look for these stupid manual workarounds.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-09-21T12:32:21+00:00
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  2. Anonymous
    2022-09-22T12:59:20+00:00

    I had one question which you can read in the title of my post. The links of how you can search the MS support web do not help answering it. I would ask why you even bother replying with this kind of ehm ... stuff, but I suspect I know the answer.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-29T17:43:39+00:00

    Well now in Windows 11 22H2 Microsoft has decided your PC wastes too much carbon so they have reduced time outs the default ones for screen and sleep. I believe it is now 3 minutes for screen and 5 for sleep. So, if you walk away from your PC for a cup of coffee and/or bathroom expect when you get back your PC will be asleep. All in the name of saving carbon, I guess. As if, most users won't change these settings to something more practical anyway. I agree, power management is way worse than it used to be.

    Then you got OEM's who override with their own profiles for power management as well.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-11-28T21:23:47+00:00

    My tabs are set to sleep after five minutes and I can’t change it. Why

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