Display settings overview

Settings in this subgroup control the power management of the display.

Subgroup, GUID, aliases, and setting visibility

  • Subgroup: Display settings

  • GUID: 7516b95f-f776-4464-8c53-06167f40cc99

  • Windows provisioning path: Common\Power\Policy\Settings\Display

  • PowerCfg alias: SUB_VIDEO

  • Hidden setting: Yes

In this section

Topic Description

Adaptive display idle timeout

Specifies whether the OS automatically scales the display idle time-out based on user activity.

If the user provides input to the system shortly after the display idle timeout is reached, Windows automatically extends the display idle time-out to deliver a better user experience.

Advanced color quality bias

Specifies the policy to decide visual quality of Advanced Color capable displays.

Allow display required policy

Specifies whether Windows allows applications to temporarily prevent the display from automatically reducing brightness or turning off to save power.

Dim annoyance timeout

This setting denotes the user annoyance detection threshold. It specifies the duration between automatic display brightness level reduction and user input to consider the automatic display brightness level reduction as an annoyance to the user.

Dim display brightness

Denotes the reduced display brightness level after the dim idle timeout has been reached.

Display brightness level

Specifies the default display brightness level.

Display idle timeout

Specifies the period of inactivity before the display is automatically turned off.