Any simple way to automate Windows control panel and other settings?

Bogdanov89

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Can anyone please suggest a simple way to automate doing some various basic config in Windows 7 & 10 like:

- set power plan in Power Options (control panel) to High Performance
- set Communications in Sound CP to "Do Nothing"
- set Visual Effects in Performance Options under System to "adjust for best performance"
- set the Time Zone under Date & time
- disable Enhance Pointer Precision under Mouse in Control Panel
- set all three sliders in Keyboard in CPanel to Short/Fast/Fast
- set certain services to Automatic like the SSDP Discovery
- change various new settings in the Windows 10 Settings like disabling Notifications, Game Bar and Focus Assist

Those are examples of some of the CPanel/Settings i need to do on basically every computer i install/reinstall so i would really love a way to "one click" the whole process.

I have tried googling the various related topics but in the vast majority of cases the methods i saw were very complicated and way beyond my knowledge.
I am hoping there is some simplistic GUI tool that can make a batch/script or something similar that doesnt require an advanced knowledge of Powershell or Regedit.

Thank you for reading and helping out.
 
Its going to be pretty much impossible without powershell knowlege. Might be a good reason to dive in. If nothing else you can use a powershell script for each item written by someone else.
 
As Alt said, your best bet is PowerShell. I can make my PC do pretty much anything with PowerShell scripts.
 
- set power plan in Power Options (control panel) to High Performance

powercfg.exe /setactive 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c

- set Communications in Sound CP to "Do Nothing"

Poke around in the registry here: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default

You can likely find the one you need and make a REG command to remove the value.

Most if not everything is REG or otherwise configurable. I'm sure PowerShell can do it better, but it's likely not required for most of it.
 
I have a bunch of batch files to do the Power setting and the time zone, for the Communications sound, sounds are by user, so its easier to leave the sound setting, but replace the sound with a blank file
 
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