Windows 10: See Active Power Plan Scheme in Windows 10

How to: See Active Power Plan Scheme in Windows 10


Information A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how your computer uses power. Power plans can help you save energy, maximize system performance, or achieve a balance between the two.

This tutorial will show you to see what the current active power plan scheme is for your account in Windows 10.



Note Windows 10 provides the following default plans:

• Balanced - Offers full performance when you need it and saves power when you don't. This is the best power plan for most people.
• Power saver - Saves power by reducing PC performance and screen brightness. If you're using a laptop, this plan can help you get the most from a single battery charge.
• High performance - Maximizes screen brightness and might increase PC performance. This plan uses a lot more energy, so your laptop battery won't last as long between charges.
• Ultimate Performance - Only available in the Windows 10 Pro for Workstations edition starting with Windows 10 build 17101. Provides ultimate performance on higher end PCs. It builds on the current High-Performance policy, and goes a step further to eliminate micro-latencies associated with fine grained power management techniques. As the power scheme is geared towards reducing micro-latencies it may directly impact hardware; and consume more power than the default balanced plan. The Ultimate Performance power policy is currently not available on battery powered systems.
• Custom power plan - These are only available if either your PC manufacturer (OEM) provided additional power plans, and/or you create a custom power plan. These are available to all users.

CONTENTS:

• Option One: To See Your Current Active Power Plan Scheme in Power Options
• Option Two: To See Your Current Active Power Plan Scheme in Command Prompt

OPTION ONE [/i] To See Your Current Active Power Plan Scheme in Power Options
1. Open Power Options.

2. The selected power plan (ex: High performance) will be your active scheme. (see screenshot below)









OPTION TWO [/i] To See Your Current Active Power Plan Scheme in Command Prompt
1. Open a command prompt.

2. Enter the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow powercfg /GetActiveScheme
3. You will now see the name (ex: High performance) and GUID (ex: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c) of your current active power plan scheme.





That's it,
Brink


Related Tutorials

• How to Choose a Power Plan in Windows 10
• How to Create a Custom Power Plan in Windows 10
• How to Change Power Plan Settings in Windows 10
• How to Rename a Power Plan in Windows 10
• How to Export and Import a Power Plan in Windows 10
• How to Delete a Power Plan in Windows 10
• How to Reset and Restore Power Plans to Default Settings in Windows 10
• How to Add or Remove Power Options Context Menu in Windows 10
• How to Specify a Default Active Power Plan in Windows 10
• How to Restore Missing Default Power Plans in Windows 10
• How to View All Power Plan Settings in a Text File in Windows

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Power plan?

Upon checking, it seems that there's nothing wrong with your system. It is usual that you have to double-click your mouse before your monitor wakes up.

For the meantime, we suggest changing the power plan by following the steps below:

• Press Windows key + S.
• Type in Power Settings.
• On the pop-up window, choose Additional power settings.
• Select High performance.

After changing the power plan, we suggest that you monitor the changes made and check if that will work for you.

Get back to us if you need further help.

 

Script for power plan

Yes sorry about the mix up, i was talking about power saver as in the power plan. anyway here is the vbs,bat and txt for powercfg /l

//VBS

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Battery",,48)

For Each objItem in colItems

Wscript.Echo "BatteryStatus: " & objItem.BatteryStatus

Next

REM [this activates the power plan bat file]

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.Run chr(34) & "C:\Users\raymo\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\BatConfig.bat" & Chr(34), 7

REM [the trailing 7 runs the batch file minimised, a 0 would run it hidden]

//BAT

:: This command switches to the High performance plan

powercfg -s 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c

:: This command switches to the Power saver plan

powercfg -s a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a

:: [these values are common to all Windows 7 & 10 computers but you can check them by running this command - powercfg /l ]

//POWERCFG /l

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]

(c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\raymo>powercfg /l

Existing Power Schemes (* Active)

-----------------------------------

Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e (Balanced)

Power Scheme GUID: 49ef8fc0-bb7f-488e-b6a0-f1fc77ec649b (Dell)

Power Scheme GUID: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c (High performance) *

Power Scheme GUID: a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a (Power saver)

Power Scheme GUID: ae1cd06e-f729-402c-b944-6dfdac58b50f (Razer Cortex Power Plan)

 

Power plans automatically changing

Hi Jonah,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community. I understand that you have an issue with power plans.
I will surely help you to fix this issue.

This issue could have occurred due to incorrect Power settings. Try the steps listed here:

Method 1:

Let’s run the power troubleshooter and check if that helps.

a. Press Windows key on the keyboard.

b. In the search box, type Troubleshooting and press
Enter.

c. Click on ‘System and Security’ and click on ‘Power’ click on next to run the troubleshooter.

Method 2:

If the issue persists, I suggest you to
restore the power plans to default and check if it helps.

Step 1: Reset and restore the power plans to default:

• 
  Right-click on
  Start button and click on Command Prompt (Admin).
  
• 
  In the command prompt, type powercfg –restoredefaultschemes
  and hit Enter.
  
• 
  Exit command prompt.
  

Note: This would reset the power plan settings to default. Any customized power plans are would be removed.



Step 2:

Once the power plan is reset to default, you may create a
new power plan and customize the same according to your needs.



Refer to the link:

Power plans: Frequently asked questions

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/power-plans-faq





Note: Applies to Windows 10.



Hope this information helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of the issue so that we can assist you further.

 

Windows 10 Battery Plans

Hi,


Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.



I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue.

I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if it helps.

• 
  Press Windows key,
  
• 
  Type Choose a power plan.
  
• 
  There you will be able to customize the power plan.
  

Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help

 

need to change power plan in power options

Here is where i found the solution .I had to do it in reverse because the solution was to use a "selected power option " only.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/specify-custom-active-power-plan-windows

1. Open administrative Command Prompt. Type
POWERCFG /LIST and hit Enter to get list of available power schemes; here * implies active plan. Please note down the
GUID for the plan you’d like to set as a specific plan.



2. Press Windows Key + R combination, type put
gpedit.msc in Run dialog box and hit Enter to open the
Local Group Policy Editor.



3. In the left pane, navigate here:

4. In the right pane of the window shown above, double click
Specify a custom active power plan setting which is Not Configured by default to get this:



5. In the above shown window, firstly click Enabled and then in the
Options section, input the Custom Active Power Plan (GUID) as we copied from
step 1. Click Apply followed by OK. You may close the
Local Group Policy Editor now. Now if you try to set power schemes manually by clicking battery icon in the taskbar notification area, you won’t be able to do so:





**** In number 5 above it states to 'enable' but since mine had been enabled I had to uncheck that part' and when I went back to the power options the "locked part was gone" . Halleluia I now can simply choose which power plan I want or if I do all the
above it will lock onto the one I choose . (That is what I had done quite some time ago ) but was having issues with that option recently .

Hope this helps.