Power & battery settings in Windows 11 won't open

Question

The power & battery settings won't open when going to Settings >System > power & battery. The same thing happens when I right click the battery icon (power & sleep settings) in the sys tray.

Answer 1

same issue here the settings crashes whenever i attempt to open battery sleep and power settings

Answer 2

1

Have you been having problems with the battery on your laptop?

2

How old roughly is your laptop and what is the make of your laptop?

Answer 3

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

1

Open Device Manager (accessible by right clicking your Start Button)

Expand the Batteries section

For each device in that section:

Right click and choose Disable

Wait a couple of seconds and right click and choose Enable

Close Device Manager

2

Open Command Prompt, then run this command to open the Power Troubleshooter and run that

msdt.exe -id PowerDiagnostic

3

Then check if you can open the Power and Battery section in the Settings app.

Answer 4

Hi,

Thanks for your quick response! Unfortunately, I followed your instructions with no luck.

Answer 5

1. No battery issues that I can think of, although its plugged in 99.9% of the time.
2. 1 yr old Lenovo Slim 7 running Win 11 pro