Windows 10 power options missing on new laptop

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I have two Dell Latitude laptops with Windows 10.
An old one and a new one I just got.

On the new laptop when I open Power Options –> Advanced settings, I only see the following groups: "Desktop background settings", Sleep, "Power buttons and lid", Display, Battery.

However, on my other laptop with win10 enterprise, I have all these plus a lot more, like: Hard disk, Internet Explorer, USB settings, Intel Graphics settings, Processor Management, etc. How do I get those on the new one?

The new one has a Dell Power Management app installed. That seems to be a battery driver. Could that be the one that's interfering?

I have a screenshot of the two different Power Options windows here:

The left is the new laptop with limited options and the right is the old one with full set of options.

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Launch your registry editor and navigate to \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings.

If you expand all of the sub-folders, click on any one of them, and you'll see a "Description" and a "Friendly Name" that describe which advanced power setting option they control. Scroll through, read those descriptions, and find the settings that you want to be able to control in advanced power settings.

For each of these, find the "Attributes" REG_DWORD file and change its value to the number 2. That setting will now show up in and can be controlled from your advanced power settings.

If you come across a setting that lacks the "Attributes" file, just create a new DWORD file called "Attributes" in that folder, set the value to 2, and it'll likewise show up in your advanced power settings.

It's a bit tedious to scroll through ~100 options, but I was able to fully-customize my advanced power settings interface in about 30 minutes.

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Yes. In order to stop Group Policy from affecting your PC/laptop, you need to disable the Group Policy service. You will need Administrative rights on the PC/laptop.

Group policy is found in the registry here:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\gpsvc

Change owners to your account (Permissions/Advanced/Owner) Make sure Administrators are checked to have "Full Control"

After closing that window, make sure the DWORD value for the Start key is set to 4 (to disable).

Reboot and Group Policies will not apply to your PC.

Note: - This will not work if you don't have full Administrative rights on your PC. - Your system admins may be clever and do other things to make life fun for you such as preventing from you accessing any domain resources if group policy does not apply to your PC (which is what we do).

Windows – Easy way to switch power plan in Windows 10

Open a command prompt and type in the following command:

powercfg /l

This'll show you your powerschemes with their GUID (example:)

Existing Power Schemes (* Active)
-----------------------------------
Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e  (Balanced)
Power Scheme GUID: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c  (High performance) *
Power Scheme GUID: a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a  (Power saver)

Make a selecton for the GUID you want to work with and right click to copy that text to the clipboard.

Now create a new textdocument and name it for example Scheme - Balanced.cmd (the .cmd is important, what comes before is up to you)

Right-click the file and choose edit.

In the file write:

powercfg /s xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

where the x's are replaced by the GUID you copied to your clipboard earlier.

So in my example that'd be:

powercfg /s 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e

Save the file. Now, each time you execute that file, your powerscheme will be set to that scheme.

EDIT: Small note as of 2021. Since a certain version of Windows 10, you may only have the balanced power scheme. If so, you can create the other ones by going into power management, create new plan, and select the High Performance and Power Saver template. No need to make further changes, just Make 2 plans using the templates and name them accordingly, and this answer can then work for you too.

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