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Useful Script for Surface Book 2 to toggle off GTX when attempting to detach the screen.
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# Useful script for detaching the screen of Surface Book. | |
# Run if detach light blinks red indicating that it cannot be detached | |
# since applications are preventing the detach. | |
# | |
# Option 1: Copy-paste into powershell window. | |
# | |
# Option 2: Run as PowerShell script (requires execution policy change): | |
# https://superuser.com/questions/106360/how-to-enable-execution-of-powershell-scripts | |
# | |
Try { | |
$GtxId = (Get-PnpDevice -FriendlyName "*GTX*").InstanceId | |
echo " DeviceID = $GtxId" | |
echo "Disabling GTX." | |
Disable-PnpDevice -Confirm:$false -InstanceId $GtxId | |
Read-Host -Prompt "Safe to detach. Hit enter to re-enable." | |
echo "Enabling GTX." | |
Enable-PnpDevice -Confirm:$false -InstanceId $GtxId | |
} Catch { | |
$ErrorMessage = $_.Exception.Message | |
$FailedItem = $_.Exception.ItemName | |
echo "Try Run as Admin." | |
echo "ERROR: $ErrorMessage" | |
echo "ERROR: $FailedItem" | |
} Finally { | |
Read-Host -Prompt "Press any key to quit" | |
} |
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Thanks! @GleasonK @jonaskuske