How to Delete or Restore Windows Power Plans
By Timothy Tibbetts |
Windows offers four preset power plans to simplify your needs; Power Saver, Balanced, High Performance, or Ultimate Performance. You can delete any power plan you like, as well as restore a missing power plan. Here's how.
1: Restore Missing Power Plans
Open PowerShell and type in any of the following codes to replace a missing power plan.
Power saver powercfg -duplicatescheme a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a
Balanced powercfg -duplicatescheme 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e
High Performance powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
Ultimate Performance powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61
2: Delete a Power Plan(s)
Deleting a power plan is a tad more complicated, but nothing you can't handle.
Open PowerShell and type in powercfg.exe /L to list all available power plans. We want to make sure the plan you want to delete isn't active. The active power plan in use has a * next to it).
Change to another power plan if the plan you want to delete is active (*) by typing in powercfg -setactive GUID replacing GUID with the GUID number of a plan you're not using.
Now, take note of the long number after GUID:. That's the GUID you'll need next.
Type in powercfg -delete and enter the GUID. Again, that's the long number after GUID:.
Reboot for the changes to apply.
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1: Restore Missing Power Plans
Open PowerShell and type in any of the following codes to replace a missing power plan.
Power saver powercfg -duplicatescheme a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a
Balanced powercfg -duplicatescheme 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e
High Performance powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
Ultimate Performance powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61
2: Delete a Power Plan(s)
Deleting a power plan is a tad more complicated, but nothing you can't handle.
Open PowerShell and type in powercfg.exe /L to list all available power plans. We want to make sure the plan you want to delete isn't active. The active power plan in use has a * next to it).
Change to another power plan if the plan you want to delete is active (*) by typing in powercfg -setactive GUID replacing GUID with the GUID number of a plan you're not using.
Now, take note of the long number after GUID:. That's the GUID you'll need next.
Type in powercfg -delete and enter the GUID. Again, that's the long number after GUID:.
Reboot for the changes to apply.
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