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After a 20 day uptime with a few needed updates I did a reboot. Did a BIOS update while anyways rebooting. Later after using it for a while and leaving it idle I come back and found my computer in sleep mode.

This had happened before after installing some app that added a power scheme so I assumed same thing happened again and went to change to my power scheme. But to my surprise I see the buttons are grayed out and a message saying:

“Some of these settings are hidden or managed by your organization.”

I’ve seen this at work but this is a single PC running Windows 10 Pro home network computer built from scratch. No enterprise. I cannot find anything else with the same lock and message. I have really looked through my BIOS and there really seem to be no setting that can mess with this. Also same error in safe-mode admin.

How can I get rid of this? Can I trace the block somehow?

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Giacomo1968
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Charkel
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Since it's Windows 10 Pro, you have access to the Group Policy Editor. Just undo any changes that prevent individual management of Power Options.

This can also be done through Regedit, for those with Windows 10 Home. Check that HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power does not have a value, CsEnabled, set to 1. If so, set it to 0. See also Microsoft's suggested Registry changes.

DrMoishe Pippik
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In the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc), navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Power Management and ensure that "Specify a custom active power plan policy" is set to Disabled.

You could in CMD that is run as Administrator enter the command
powercfg -restoredefaultschemes.

harrymc
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