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Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Windows 10

How to Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Windows 10
Published by Shawn Brink Category: Performance & Maintenance
19 Apr 2020

How to Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Windows 10

Displays (especially on laptops and tablets) may utilize ambient light sensors to detect surrounding levels
of light.

The adaptive brightness feature in Windows monitors ambient light sensors to detect changes in ambient
light and automatically adjust the display brightness as needed to match surrounding lighting conditions.

While adaptive brightness is useful to help save battery life, it may at times cause your display brightness
level to be too dark.

This tutorial will show you di erent ways on how to enable or disable adaptive brightness in Windows 10.

Contents
Option One: To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Settings
Option Two: To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Power Options
Option Three: To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness for Current Power Plan in Command
Prompt
Option Four: To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness for Speci c Power Plan in Command
Prompt
Option Five: To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Intel HD Graphics Control Panel

 
OPTION ONE
To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Settings ✖

1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the System icon.

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2 Click/tap on Display on the left side, and check (on) or uncheck (o ) Change brightness
automatically when lighting changes for what you want on the right side under Brightness and color.
(see screenshot below)

3 You can now close Settings if you like.

OPTION TWO
To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Power Options

 This option will a ect all users that use the same power plan you set this for.

✖
1 Open the advanced Power Options for your power plan.

2 In your current active power plan's (ex: High Performance) advanced settings, expand open Display and Enable adaptive
brightness. (see screenshot below step 3)

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3 Turn on or o Enable adaptive brightness for what you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

OPTION THREE
To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness for Current Power Plan in Command Prompt

1 Open a command prompt.

2 Type the command below you want to use into the command prompt, and press Enter . (see screenshot below)

(Enable - On battery)
powercfg -setdcvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT 7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99 FBD9AA66-9553-4097-
BA44-ED6E9D65EAB8 1
✖
OR

(Enable - Plugged in)

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powercfg -setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT 7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99 FBD9AA66-9553-4097-

BA44-ED6E9D65EAB8 1

OR

(Disable - On battery)
powercfg -setdcvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT 7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99 FBD9AA66-9553-4097-
BA44-ED6E9D65EAB8 0

OR

(Disable - Plugged in)

powercfg -setacvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT 7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99 FBD9AA66-9553-4097-
BA44-ED6E9D65EAB8 0

3 Copy and paste the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter to apply the change. You can now
close the command prompt if you like.

powercfg -SetActive SCHEME_CURRENT

OPTION FOUR
To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness for Speci c Power Plan in Command Prompt

1 Open a command prompt.

2 Copy and paste the powercfg /L command into the command prompt, and press Enter . Make note of the GUID
number (ex: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c) of the power plan you want to apply this to. (see screenshot below)

 The power plan (ex: High performance) with a * to the right of it is your current active power plan scheme.

3 Type the command below you want to use into the command prompt, and press Enter . (see screenshot below)
✖

(On battery)
powercfg -setdcvalueindex GUID 7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99 FBD9AA66-9553-4097-BA44-
ED6E9D65EAB8 Index

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OR

(Plugged in)
powercfg -setacvalueindex GUID 7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99 FBD9AA66-9553-4097-BA44-
ED6E9D65EAB8 Index

 Substitute GUID in the command above with the actual GUID from step 2 above for the power plan you want to
apply this to.

Substitute Index in the command above with the number below for the default action you want set for adaptive
brightness.

For example: Set to "Enable" for the High performance power plan GUID (8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-
a6e23a8c635c)

powercfg -setacvalueindex 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c 7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-

06167f40cc99 FBD9AA66-9553-4097-BA44-ED6E9D65EAB8 1

Index Number Action

0 Disable

1 Enable

4 Type the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter to apply the change. You can now close the
command prompt if you like. (see screenshot below)

 This command will set the power plan for the GUID as your active scheme. If you do not want this power plan to be set
as your active scheme, then you can restart the computer to apply the changes instead of doing this step.

powercfg -SetActive GUID

 Substitute GUID in the command above with the same GUID from step 2 above for the power plan you want to
apply this to.

For example: powercfg -SetActive 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c

OPTION FIVE
To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Intel HD Graphics Control Panel
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 If you have Intel graphics, then what you have set in the Intel HD Graphics and Media Control Panel may override what you
have set in Windows Power Options.

If you do not have Intel graphics, then this option does not apply to you.

1 Right click or press and hold on your desktop, and click/tap on Intel Graphics Settings to open the Intel HD Graphics and
Media Control Panel.

2 Click/tap on the Power icon. (see screenshot below)

3 Do step 4 (enable) or step 5 (disable) below for what you want.

4  To Enable Adaptive Brightness in Intel HD Graphics Control Panel

A) Select On Battery or Plugged in, and select the plan (ex: "Balanced Mode") for what you want to apply this to. (see
screenshot below)

B) Select (check) Enable under Display Power Saving Technology, and adjust the slider to the level you want.

C) Click/tap on Apply, and go to step 6 below.

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5  To Disable Adaptive Brightness in Intel HD Graphics Control Panel

A) Select On Battery or Plugged in, and select the plan (ex: "Balanced Mode") for what you want to apply this to. (see
screenshot below)

B) Select (check) Disable under Display Power Saving Technology, and click/tap on Apply, and go to step 6 below.

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6 Click/tap on Yes to con rm. (see screenshot below)

 Your changes will automatically be reverted in 15 seconds if you do not click/tap on Yes to con rm.

That's it,
Shawn

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