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July 11th, 2017 09:00
Power plan settings greyed
Hi,
I want to change "Lid close action" when "Plugged In" for "Quiet (Reduced Fan Levels)' power plan. But setting is greyed.
How can i do this ?
Thanks
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Adelsc0tt
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July 13th, 2017 20:00
Ok,
I installed "Dell Command | Power Manager" (v 2.2.0). Before setup it removed "Dell Feature Enhancement Pack". I guess the two power plans Cool (Reduced Temp Levels) and Quiet (Reduced Fan Levels) came from here and somehow were unchangeable even in Administrator mode.
Power Manager seems better, thanks to "Thermal Management" that offers 4 presets (Optimized, Cool, Quiet and Ultra Performance) affecting only Fan speed and Max Core clock without messing with Lid Close Action, because they are not power plans . Now I can have a completely silent laptop and choose how it behaves.
Everything is not perfect because I think I found a bug in Power Manager, I'll open a new thread for it.
robert p
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July 12th, 2017 06:00
Hi Adelsc0tt,
Thanks for posting.
Well, this depends on your system and the operating system you're using.
Since you haven't posted that, all I can do is give a general reply for the most common operating system. http://dell.to/2udJeEm
Adelsc0tt
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July 12th, 2017 09:00
Hi,
Thanks, sorry for forgetting.
System : XPS13 MLK (9360)
OS : Windows 10 Pro
Tried option 4 :
Existing Power Schemes (* Active)
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Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e (Balanced) *
Power Scheme GUID: 674fd206-2c45-4789-99d5-c8a90034c8a7 (Cool (Reduced Temp Levels))
Power Scheme GUID: dea1a47b-7939-4ad2-9293-eafb59386025 (Quiet (Reduced Fan Levels))
That command :
powercfg -setacvalueindex dea1a47b-7939-4ad2-9293-eafb59386025 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936 0
Gives me :
You do not have the permissions required to perform this action.
I've run CMD as Administrator:emotion-6: