Change Default Action of Power Button in Windows 10

SpacemanSam · 07 Apr 2020

Do you know of any issues with this in W10 v1909? I have both Power and Sleep button actions set to "Do nothing", but the power key on the keyboard now causes an immediate shutdown, which causes serious loss of work if something bumps that key accidentally. This setting was working properly in v1809.

Brink · 08 Apr 2020

SpacemanSam said:

Do you know of any issues with this in W10 v1909? I have both Power and Sleep button actions set to "Do nothing", but the power key on the keyboard now causes an immediate shutdown, which causes serious loss of work if something bumps that key accidentally. This setting was working properly in v1809.

Hello Sam,

You might check to see if there may be some BIOS or OEM power management software installed that could be set and overriding this.

SpacemanSam · 08 Apr 2020

Yep, that was it.
Repeated attempts at updating Windows had failed, and the last attempt glitched and prevented Windows from booting any further than the recovery console. None of the recovery options worked. So there was nothing else I could do except a clean reinstall. But I forgot to install the OEM drivers for this mobo. That was the problem. Once I installed the mobo chipset driver, powercfg disables the keyboard "Power" key as it should.

Brink · 08 Apr 2020

Great news.

SpacemanSam · 08 Apr 2020

Now that that problem is solved, I can go ahead and send you this:

You can replace the GUIDs in the powercfg command with their friendly names. That makes the code more readable.
4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 --> SUB_BUTTONS
7648efa3-dd9c-4e3e-b566-50f929386280 --> PBUTTONACTION

You can also specify the sleep button action by specifying SBUTTONACTION instead of PBUTTONACTION.

To set the desired actions for all power plans implemented on your computer, use the following batch code:

Code:

REM Set the following according to what you want.
SET "WakeLogin=0" & REM 0 = Disabled, 1 = Enabled
SET "KbdPowerKey=0" & REM 0 = Do nothing, 1 = Sleep, 2 = Hibernate, 3 = Shut down, 4 = Turn off the display
SET "KbdSleepKey=0" & REM 0 = Do nothing, 1 = Sleep, 2 = Hibernate, 3 = Shut down, 4 = Turn off the display

for /f "skip=2 tokens=4*" %%i in ('powercfg /list') do (
  IF "%%j" == "" (powercfg /d %%i) ELSE (
  powercfg -SETACVALUEINDEX %%i SUB_NONE CONSOLELOCK %WakeLogin%
  powercfg -SETDCVALUEINDEX %%i SUB_NONE CONSOLELOCK %WakeLogin%
  powercfg -SETACVALUEINDEX %%i sub_buttons lidaction 0 & REM On AC, do nothing when lid closes
  powercfg -SETDCVALUEINDEX %%i sub_buttons lidaction 1 & REM On DC, go to sleep when lid closes
  powercfg -SETACVALUEINDEX %%i sub_buttons PBUTTONACTION %KbdPowerKey% & REM On AC, what to do when power key is pressed
  powercfg -SETDCVALUEINDEX %%i sub_buttons PBUTTONACTION %KbdPowerKey% & REM On DC, what to do when power key is pressed
  powercfg -SETACVALUEINDEX %%i sub_buttons SBUTTONACTION %KbdSleepKey% & REM On AC, what to do when sleep key is pressed
  powercfg -SETDCVALUEINDEX %%i sub_buttons SBUTTONACTION %KbdSleepKey% & REM On DC, what to do when sleep key is pressed
  )
)

I have this in my ConfigureWindows.bat file which I run on every new install. The three SET commands are in a separate section at the top (along with other settings that can be configured per installation).

Brink · 08 Apr 2020

bartdivanov · 22 Aug 2020

Hey guys,

I just tried "To Change Default Power Button Action for Current Power Plan in Command Prompt" option on my Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.450] and it does not seem to work - when I check if the options are changed in Control Panel after the commands have been executed, no change in the values for the Power Button is recorded.

I need to set the power button to do nothing:

powercfg -setdcvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 7648efa3-dd9c-4e3e-b566-50f929386280 0

Any suggestions?

Brink · 22 Aug 2020

bartdivanov said:

Hey guys,

I just tried "To Change Default Power Button Action for Current Power Plan in Command Prompt" option on my Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.450] and it does not seem to work - when I check if the options are changed in Control Panel after the commands have been executed, no change in the values for the Power Button is recorded.

I need to set the power button to do nothing:

powercfg -setdcvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 7648efa3-dd9c-4e3e-b566-50f929386280 0

Any suggestions?

Hello Bart, and welcome to Ten Forums.

If this is for the tablet in your specs, then it's most likely a hardware or firmware override.

bartdivanov · 22 Aug 2020

Brink said:

Hello Bart, and welcome to Ten Forums.

If this is for the tablet in your specs, then it's most likely a hardware or firmware override.

Thanks, thanks for your welcome!

Yes, this is exactly for a tablet Zebra R12. I am trying this for days with not luck..

I can actually do this using Control Panel manually, and this is a custom power scheme.

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Index Number	Action
0	Do nothing
1	Sleep
2	Hibernate
3	Shut down
4	Turn off the display