How to Reset a Windows 10 Power Plan to Default [Tutorial]
117How to Reset a Windows 10 Power Plan to Default [Tutorial]
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. In this post, we will show you how to restore the Power Saver, Balanced, High Performance or Ultimate Performance default power plan if missing in Windows 10.
By default, Windows 10 come with three power plans: High Performance, Balanced, and Power Saver. These plans are designed to quickly let you switch a group of hardware and system power settings (like display, sleep, etc). Your PC can have additional power plans defined by its vendor. These power settings affect how long your battery lasts and how much power your PC consumes. It is possible to customize these power plan settings. In this tutorial, we will see how to revert your customizations and restore the power plan defaults in Windows 10.
Windows 10 comes with a new UI again to change the operating system's power related options. The classic Control Panel is losing its features and probably will be replaced by the Settings app. The Settings app has already got many settings which were exclusively available in the Control Panel. The battery notification area icon in the Windows 10 system tray was also replaced with a new Modern UI.
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.
All users (standard and administrator) will be able to make changes to any power plan settings.
Changes made to a power plan will affect all users that have chosen the same power plan as their default active power scheme.
The same is for power options. Most important options were moved to the Settings app. However, the cusomization options of a power plan still should be set using the classic Power Options applet. The same applet can be used to reset a power plan. To reset all the available power plans at once, it is better to use the console powercfg tool. Let's see how it can be done.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops,and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems.Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).