How to use NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M?

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silly_programmer

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I recently bought a laptop. Alienware 13 R2. It has:
Intel i7 6500 U CPU @ 2.50 GHz 2.59 GHz
16 GB DDR3 RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M GDDR5 4GB
Windows 10; version 1703 (15063.540)

I want to force some softwares to use the graphics card by default.

But if I try to open the NVIDIA control panel, it says: "NVIDIA display settings are not available. You are not using a display attached to an NVIDIA GPU."
I dont use any other display/monitor/screen, other than the laptop's screen.

How do I solve this? And how do I force particular softwares to use graphics card instead of conventional RAM?

Thanks a lot in advance.
 
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I tried it after reading your message, but no option there.
 
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Some laptops by default stop you from using the dedicated graphics when on battery. Often this is resolved by opening the display settings and selecting the high power option, but if you can't open it, then it's going to be difficult. Try again when the power is plugged in, hopefully it will enable the dedicated graphics.
Maybe you can select a higher power use option in the control panel's "power options".
 
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HI all.
I simply deleted the device driver for NVIDIA (it was already up to date), and updated intel's graphics driver. After that, I reinstalled NVIDIA's driver. Now I can open the control panel for NVIDIA. So one problem is solved.

But I couldnt find any solution to my second issue. Neither in control panel, nor on NVIDIA's site anywhere.
"How to force some particular program/task (software) to use NVIDIA by default?"
I am not even sure if it would be possible through conventional methods without doing some manual programming. For example: if I want firefox, and outlook/mail to use NVIDIA by default (instead of RAM), how should I do that?
 
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