Power & battery settings in Windows 11 won't open

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Anonymous
2023-10-02T14:41:09+00:00

The power & battery settings won't open when going to Settings >System > power & battery. The same thing happens when I right click the battery icon (power & sleep settings) in the sys tray.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Settings

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  1. DaveM121 932.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-10-02T15:14:52+00:00

    Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    1

    Open Device Manager (accessible by right clicking your Start Button)

    Expand the Batteries section

    For each device in that section:

    Right click and choose Disable

    Wait a couple of seconds and right click and choose Enable

    Close Device Manager

    2

    Open Command Prompt, then run this command to open the Power Troubleshooter and run that

    msdt.exe -id PowerDiagnostic

    3

    Then check if you can open the Power and Battery section in the Settings app.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-10-02T15:36:26+00:00

    Hi,

    Thanks for your quick response! Unfortunately, I followed your instructions with no luck.

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  3. DaveM121 932.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-10-02T15:38:08+00:00

    1

    Have you been having problems with the battery on your laptop?

    2

    How old roughly is your laptop and what is the make of your laptop?

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-10-02T15:44:00+00:00
    1. No battery issues that I can think of, although its plugged in 99.9% of the time.
    2. 1 yr old Lenovo Slim 7 running Win 11 pro
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  5. DaveM121 932.6K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-10-02T15:49:51+00:00

    If you are not experiencing any problems with the battery on your laptop, the best option then may be to wait until the feature update on 10th of October next week and hopefully that will solve the problem accessing battery and power settings.

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