A no frills tray app (backed by a Windows service) to adjust the thermal settings of Dell laptops.
Compared to official Dell Power Manager app which takes ~28 seconds to start up, my trap app gives me immediate and easy access to switching thermal profiles!!
This is a fork of AaronKelley/DellFanManagement. Full credit and kudos to Aaron for the Dell Smbios library code. All I did was create a GUI and Windows service.
See Releases for download
Requires Dell Power Manager and Windows 10. Tested on Dell XPS 15 9570 (2018) and Dell Latitude 7390 2-in-1 (2018) models.
Tested on Windows 10 x64
The app is published as a "self-contained" net6.0 app so you don't need any frameworks etc installed locally at all (pretty cool!)
Unzip to somwehere e.g. C:\opt\DellFanManagement\
Run as Administrator:
DellThermalSettingService.exe install
DellThermalSettingService.exe start
Then launch the GUI tray app DellFanManagementTrayAppWpf.exe.
Choose 'Autostart' from tray menu so it auto-starts on startup
Run as Administrator:
DellThermalSettingService.exe uninstall
From the tray menu, unselect 'Autostart', then 'Exit'
Finally, delete C:\opt\DellFanManagement\ :)
If building yourself, the default EXE build paths are:
DellThermalSettingService\bin\Release\net6.0-windows\win-x64\
DellFanManagementTrayAppWpf\bin\Release\net6.0-windows\win-x64\