Resolving Crackling, Throttling, and "Ultmate Performance Option" in Lenovo Thinkpad P16 (Gen 2)

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Even I should be able to follow that.

Thank you!

Jeff

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Another dumb (quick) question.

I am copying the location (right click).

Should I select:

Copy Address

or

Copy Address as Text

Jeff

(My bit of research suggests the ā€œas textā€ option, or else it inserts additional language that should not be included. But, I figure I will wait for confirmination).

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Okay, I think I did exactly as you suggested. (sorry about all the ā€œhand holdingā€)

I get a reply as follows:

& : The term `C:\music\utility scriptsā€™ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable programā€¦

I had copied and pasted the location as text and it looks exactly like you wrote (I even recreated that same file name and structure).

Then I thought maybe the problem was the path had to include the file name (including .psi), so I tried that and got this response:

& : The term `C:\music\utility scripts\SetSafeUltimate.psiā€™ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable programā€¦

I tried again with .psi at the end. Now I get:

& : File C:\music\utility scripts\SetSafeUltimate.psi cannot be loaded. The file C:\music utility scripts\SetSafeUltimate.psi is not digitally signed. You cannot run this script on the current system.

Then it gave a Microsoft link regarding Execution Policies

Jeff

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It should be .ps1 not .psi

About the execution policy: right click on the SetSafeUltimate.ps1:

In the popup menu click ā€˜propertiesā€™. Probably at the bottom thereā€™s a message about the file being blocked, because itā€™s from the internet. Remove the block and try again.

Maybe post a screenshot in this thread of the powershell window with the command executed (or having failed to execute)

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Thank you, Frank.

I checked off ā€œunblockā€. I will let you know how it goes.

Jeff

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It seems to work! Letā€™s see if crackling occurs. It shows a bunch of deletions (makes sense).

Weā€™ll open up GP and see if I get crackling now.

Then (if there is no crackling), will see if we get crackling after shutting down and restarting.

Thanks for your patience,

Jeff

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Update, no crackling this session. Weā€™ll see if it sticks.

Update: I closed everything down, waited a few hours, and restarted the computer and GP (without running anything in Powershell). No crackling!

Iā€™ll check again in am.

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Final Post on this topic (hopefully).

I have restarted the computer twice, including after shutting it down overnight.

There is no crackling. (I did not run through the Powershell process each time).

So, Frankā€™s script (seemingly) not only cleared out the old registration entries and fixed the crackling until the next start up, it seems like it permanently changed my laptop to the Ultimate Power setting and fixed the issue. (If it comes back, letā€™s say after an Windows update, Iā€™ll just run the script again).

Thanks to everyone in the Community for helping me with this. As far as I am concerned, this Community itself is worth the price of admission. I donā€™t see how I would have fixed this without this forum.

And special thanks to Frank for all the help (above and beyond) to get this resolved.

Jeff

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Glad you got it sorted! Sorry if this has already been discussed, just wanted to mention make sure your laptop is plugged in. Lenovo especially throttles the CPU when not plugged in.

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Thx, ztones, yes, always plugged in.:slight_smile: