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Use the batch file from Tenforums....attached here. Much better since it enables it immediately, mine you have to restart first.
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Group policy
You can also download LGPO here,
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55319
gpol.rar downloads fine for me.
First you copy the LGPO.exe file to your windows system32 directory. Then create the Pol folder on the c drive, the program doesn't do it and will give an error. Then just run the backup.bat file. It will backup your GPO to a folder called Pol on the C drive. The command for this looks like this;
Copy between the lines and create a new bat file.
This is to backup your group policy
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C:\Windows\System32\LGPO.exe /b c:\Pol
TIMEOUT /T 5 > nul
EXIT
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This is to restore the policy to another machine
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C:\Windows\System32\LGPO.exe /g c:\pol
TIMEOUT /T 5 > nul
EXIT
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-You can make Pol anything as long as you create the folder first
-Recover from the folder you created
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Power plan
I will include my power plan, It is set to High Performance, but there is some tweaks in it.........and others are controlled via GPO. When you import my GPO settings with the pow file then you have almost all the tweaks for it.
To create your own power plan use this method;
Goto Dos or a command prompt with admin privileges
powercfg /list
It will look like this.......except this is my pow file
Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e (Balanced)
Power Scheme GUID: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c (High performance)
Power Scheme GUID: a16ba5d3-7a8e-4c56-bf0d-9eb1546c6790 (Saaglem) *
Power Scheme GUID: a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a (Power saver)
* this would indicate the power plan that is enabled
Once you have created you power plan then just export it,
powercfg -export "c:\Saaglem.pow" a16ba5d3-7a8e-4c56-bf0d-9eb1546c6790
or
powercfg -export "c:\High performance.pow" 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
Then in future just import it with a batch file, point the batch file towards the pow file
powercfg -import "c:\Saaglem.pow" a16ba5d3-7a8e-4c56-bf0d-9eb1546c6790
or
powercfg -import "c:\High performance.pow" 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
You can also just copy the files inside the folder with the crazy numbers to the C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\
and then set it active
powercfg /setactive a16ba5d3-7a8e-4c56-bf0d-9eb1546c6790
or
powercfg /setactive 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
Done