How to enable/disable Focus Mode on HP Spectre 14t

[freixas]

Focus Mode is a display mode supported by the latest Intel chips. The HP manual does not mention this at all, but apparently it went out in the briefing material given to the press as many sites include a description. For example:

Focus mode dims background apps not in use while keeping the app currently being used bright. This also helps battery life by dimming parts of the screen that are not in use.

-- https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2020/10/08/hp-unveils-spectre-x360-14-expands-spectre-an...

Apparently, I managed to find a way to turn this feature on. Since it's a feature that seems to be supported by the GPU features of the 11th generation Intel chips, you'd think the setting would be in Intel Graphics Command Center app. I don't see it there. I've run every HP app I could find and if the setting is in one of them, I haven't found it.

As I said, I know it's there somewhere since I enabled the feature once. It's embarrassing that I can't remember, but I was trying out a bunch of things and it must have appeared in one of them.

I discovered how lame HP support was. The person on the other end of the chat didn't know anything about it. He sent it to his "research team". Their emailed response was to use the F1 key. This is the Microsoft Help key, of course, Then they closed my support case.

We searches have been useless. Many searches lead to "Focus Assist" which is a totally different features. And, apparently, there are a lot of programs that can dim all but the active window.

So HP has provided a feature that is undocumented except in press materials and they provide no clue as to how to enable/disable it. I'm hoping someone has discovered the location of this control.

[freixas · Accepted solution]

OK, I'm going to answer my own question.

After spending hours looking for this, I re-ran all HP apps. When I got to HP Command Center, I saw "Focus Mode" in the System Control pane, at the bottom of the Device Mode section.

Now you know!