GUIDE - HOW TO UNLOCK WINDOWS POWER PLANS IF YOU HAVE ONLY THE "BALANCED" ONE

Oro331

Hi! I've recently found that some Laptops do NOT have some power plans like "High Performance" or "Maximum Power Efficiency", but only have the "Balanced" one. My laptop did too! So here's how i made them reappear. Do not worry, this is a safe procedure.

1st and foremost, you have to open the Windows Registry Editor by clicking windows + r and then you'll have to digit: regedit, click "ok" and then "yes" again on the permission window.

Now, you'll see a bunch of folders, that's the system registry. I want you to go to "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power"(CLICK ON THE POWER FOLDER, DO NOT GO INTO THE SUBFOLDERS), you'll see a bunch of DWORD's. I want you to:

1 right click where the dword's are

2 create a 32bit dword

3 Rename it to PlatformAoAcOverride and leave it with a value of 0.

Save what you have done and reboot your laptop.

Now, if you still can't find other power plans, i want you to open the PowerShell as Administrator and copy and paste these commands:

1. powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c (THIS IS HIGH PERFORMANCE MODE)
2. powercfg -duplicatescheme a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a (THIS IS BEST POWER EFFICIENCY)
3. powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61 (EXTRA ONE - ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE MODE, this is for VERY FAST and energy hungy pc's)

Reboot your pc, just in case, and now you should find these power plans in the Control Panel under the "hidden" power plan section.

Now, why would you do this?

I personally like to have control of what happens in my PC, but i found to have better stability and less latency by using the High Performance and Ultimate Performance plans.

That's it.

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/714931/guide-how-to-unlock-windows-power-plans-if-you-have-only-the-balanced-one

Hi, there is a reason why your latest Windows version defaults to Balanced Power Plan: Modern Standby, the new Sleep Mode in Windows, only supports the Balanced plan, you can edit the registry, but you will find that Power Plan will revert to Balanced after some time. The new way to control the Power Plan is with Power & Battery settings, with exactly the same results. Only if you disable Modern Standby in the registry, not recommended for Windows 23H2, can you create the Power Plans you mention above. Try these Power modes instead, the same thing:

Oro331

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1305721#Comment_1305721

Modern Standby often bugs out and restricts user control over power plans. This may lead to unwanted behaviours, like the power plan(THE ONE IN THE CONTROL PANEL, which still affects ALL power plans settings like the one we see in Your screenshot) getting locked to maximum performance after an app requests to activate this power plan(For example, VR Clients like SteamVR or Oculus).

My changes are permanent(wupdates may reset the registry edit, but it ain't a problem), as the power plan setting in Control Panel STILL works without issues and the functionality has not been removed by Microsoft

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1305774#Comment_1305774

Microsoft addressed issues with Modern Standby in the latest Windows11 23H2 update KB5044380 22 October2024, "Battery use fixed: A device uses too much battery power while the device is in Modern Standby". Modern Standby is an important feature of W10-11 replacing the old Connected Standby of Windows8.1, you are turning the clock back 10 years of Windows development by disabling Modern Standby and as you state the registry will be reset to Balanced each time when you do the patch Tuesday updates, not permanent and all in vain 😉