Usb Power Saving Windows 10

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Usb power saving windows 10. This feature is supposed to save power by shutting down usb ports that are only used intermittently. While this guide focuses on windows 10 usb selective suspend has been around for a long time and you can use the same steps on machines running windows 8 1 and windows 7. This setting isn t available on all windows 10 pcs it depends on your pc s hardware and your pc manufacturer. When the device manager window opens expand the universal serial bus controllers branch then right click the usb root hub device and select properties.

In windows 10 you do that by right clicking start and selecting device manager. To change your usb port s power settings you need to open the device manager. By default windows enables the power saving feature all usb ports known as usb selective suspend. After upgrade system to windows 10 usb ports don t work demystifying usb selective suspend these are a few of the articles that have further information on windows usb power management.

If you are using a laptop computer this feature may help if you do not want usb powered devices to draw off the computer s battery while the devices are not actively being used. Press the windows key r to open the run box. Enable disable power saving on usb ports. The device manager in windows 10.

The operating system microsoft windows 7 allows the computer to shut off power to usb devices to save power. Windows disable usb power saving disableselectivesuspend by gordy b stronach. Type devmgmt msc and press enter.