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oldyoungguy,

Once I can help you get back to a normal set of PowerCfg -a results then you'll be able to adopt any number of approaches to mitigate the curse of S0. I believe that the priority must be getting those normal results.

By the way, Bree & I have different approaches to "taming" S0.
- I avoid it kicking in at all [despite leaving it enabled] and I accept the power used up when I'm using the computer. I hibernate it when I'm not using it just as, on my good computers, I [S3] Sleep them when I'm not using them.
- Bree adopts a different approach, explained in the link in Bree's last post.
Once you have a normal set of PowerCfg -a results then you'll be able to consider which approach best fits your circumstances.

All the best,
Denis

I'll check those YouTube things then almost certainly suggest undoing them.
- One undoing will be using the tutorial I gave you a link to earlier on.
- I think I know what the other undoing will be because I did not throw away my old notes when procedures changed three years ago. I'll study the YouTube links you posted so I can be sure what they did.

"CsEnabled package, which makes the machine the best status so far. 12 hours battery overnight, there are still 89% left." - That sounds more like a computer with S3 Sleep, which you do not have, or a computer that hibernated after a while.
"We found it drains the battery quickly overnight …" That's what S0 computers do. It does not use up the battery as quickly as being on & in use.
The aim of things like the CSEnabled change [prior to v1903] & the current PlatformaoOverrideWhatever thing is to disable S0 & re-enable S3 Sleep. It works for some computers. It has not worked on yours; your PowerCfg -a results make that clear].

There are in effect four Power/Computer states for an S0 Modern standby [aka S0 Low power idle] computer
- Computer on, Monitor on
- Computer on, Monitor off {The monitor turning off initiates S0 Modern standby, the progressively severe idle condition that suppresses, amongst other things, Task scheduler tasks}.
- Hibernate
- Off

There is no "Sleep" in the sense that we commonly use the term ["S3 Sleep"].
- This is despite MS leaving the word Sleep dotted around the place such as in the descriptions of the later phases of S0 Modern standby [S0 is progressive. It will increasingly reduce the permitted activities as time passes.].

Or set your monitor timeout to Never in Power options and avoid S0 ever kicking in.
I've been trying to get the best of both worlds by setting my monitor timeout to never but having a fairly dark-screened screensaver licking in at 2 mins.


I am trying to get you back to a coherent set of PowerCfg -a results to get you back to a normal configuration & to see what settings are now changeable. After that, things like Admin account with "Some settings are managed by system administrator" can be addressed.


All the best,
Denis

I have examined the download but there is no explanation of what each part of it does. I have searched within its many component files but I cannot find any reference to, for example, PlatformAoAcOverride to allow me to work backwards to find out what each bit does. It's a huge package with many individual actions [many of which are quite unnecessarily in hidden files] but I'd been expecting straightforward Registry editing files [.reg files] to alter CsEnabled & PlatformAoAcOverride Registry entries.
I cannot suggest how to undo the unknown actions.
I could suggest undoing the S0 disabling by using the tutorial but that is only part of what has been done and there is no reason to think that, on its own, it will sort out those disabled power options you are concerned about.

You are not going to like this but I suggest making a system image, backing up drivers then reinstalling Windows 10 and then making a fresh system image.

- If I did that it would take me a week by the time I'd worked through Windows settings & settings within each of my applications.

That should give you a normal set of powercfg -a results and a firm base from which to proceed.
- Then you can check your ability to set up things like the action for closing the lid and, if you can't then you can post a new thread to ask other Surface Pro 4 owners if they have managed to do so. And make a new system image afterwards.
- When/if you can get the bare essentials done you can consider re-doing some of the jobs from that download, re-checking those bare essentials, making a new system image and trying the next one.

This is a lot of work. I have not done anything like this on my S0 computer. As I mentioned earlier, if I'm not using it then I hibernate it, turn it off altogether or leave it plugged in to power & suppress S0 by keeping the monitor on the whole time [albeit with a screensaver kicking in after a couple of minutes].

I'm happy to guide you through anything you do decide to do.

All the best,
Denis

Whenever you do find the time you can post back here with any questions.

My own to-do list still has entries from 1989.

Please keep being careful about using the term sleep.
- When people use that term, they generally mean S3 Sleep - the thing that sends it to sleep in about a second, that resumes when told to in about a second, that allows Task scheduler tasks to wake the computer, that only drains the battery by about 0.5%-1% an hour, that we've all been used to for the last ten years or so.
- If your computer is designed to use S0 Modern standby then it does not S3 Sleep. S0 Modern standby is a glorified and pretty useless idle condition.

Thanks for the rep. But I'll only deserve it when your computer is back up & fully operational.

All the best,
Denis

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