Omen 25L insists on blinking LEDs, won't sleep, generally wants way too much attention

[NameAlreadyTake]

I bought an Omen 25L a couple of months ago.  I realize a "gaming" computer is supposed to be flashy, but I never encountered a device so insistent on drawing attention to itself.

When I used the "sleep" command the screen does dark for a couple of seconds, then lights up again.  I found a solution that involves adding an entry to the registry.  That worked, mostly, though not all the time.  In any case why would anyone ship a product that requires a use to alter the registry for a basic function like sleep?  Only a very small percentage of people will be comfortable changing the registry.  There have been times the computer wouldn't sleep even after the timeout period, though the registry change seems to have solved that problem completely.

The computer has all sorts of lights inside that shine through the glass side.  I eventually found the Omen Gaming Center and was able to turn them down, though not the light on the GPU.  I suspect the solution was only partially effective, but I shoved that side of the machine against a dark wall so the output is reduced to a tolerable level.

The worst of the light pollution comes from the front LED.  This is a large square (or diamond) on the front panel that is capable of putting out bright white light.  I assume it can produce other colors as well, but as I just want it off I don't care about that.  This light used to blink unremittingly, and as it is in my bedroom that is not tolerable.  I could resort to turning the computer off every night, or get out my roll of electrical tape, but I opened the Omen Gaming Center again.  I fiddled around and got the LED to go dark ... until 2:00 A.M.  For whatever reason the computer decided to start blinking again, as perhaps it was lonely.  Opening the Gaming Center once more, I discovered what appears to be a nighttime-mode button.  I clicked that and once again turned off the front LED.  I don't know yet if that will work, but what sort of person thinks it's a good idea to have the nighttime settings as bright as the daytime configuration?

I suppose there is a 100-screen manual somewhere that would explain how to use the Gaming Center.  I found the program to be non-intuitive.  That may have been in part because it froze one of the first times I opened it.  I needed a few clicks to understand why the buttons I pressed weren't doing anything.  Also the HP communities still have references to the Omen Control program, which does not appear to exist in Windows 11.  These discussions should be purged from any HP-controlled sites.  Are there concise instructions for turning off (or on) all the LEDs, and an explanation for why the machine ships with everything turned on?

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