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Opening / Changing Advanced Power Options using .BAT files

This could be useful if you want to quickly change settings in your power plan based on what your laptop is doing.

Shortcut to open advanced settings

Create a new text document and copy/paste the line from below Then save it

AdvPowerSettings.batcontrol.exe powercfg.cpl,,3

How to change settings

Create a new text document and copy/paste one of the lines from below and Save it as

Boost Disabled

powercfg.exe /SETACVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT 54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00 be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7 000
powercfg.exe -S SCHEME_CURRENT

Efficient Aggressive

powercfg.exe /SETACVALUEINDEX SCHEME_CURRENT 54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00 be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7 004
powercfg.exe -S SCHEME_CURRENT

Boost Mode Index Numbers

The last 3 digits of the above commands can be changed to the following for the various boost modes

Possible Setting Index: 000 - Disabled
Possible Setting Index: 001 - Enabled
Possible Setting Index: 002 – Aggressive
Possible Setting Index: 003 - Efficient Enabled
Possible Setting Index: 004 - Efficient Aggressive
Possible Setting Index: 005 - Aggressive At Guaranteed
Possible Setting Index: 006 - Efficient Aggressive At Guaranteed

Other things that are possible

  • Change which power mode you’re in (Silent, Balanced, High Performance)
  • Change any settings within these power plans
  • Change other settings such as sleep/wake timers

image Examples shown above