Change / Customize Power Plans in Windows 7
Power plans help you to maximize your computer's performance or conserve energy. You can choose a plan and customize it by changing its power settings.
A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how your computer uses power.
Windows provides the following three plans to manage your computer's power:
Note: High performance doesn't appear on the battery meter by default. Follow the steps below to select High Performance.
Steps to customize the Power Plan for your computer:
1. Click the Start and then choose the Control Panel option.
2. Control Panel window opens up. Click All Control Panel Items then select the Power Options.
3. By default the Power saver plan is active as you can see below in the screen shot.
4. Click down arrow to Show additional plans.
5. Choose Balanced and then click Change plan settings.
The Edit Plan Settings window opens up as below.
Choose the Sleep and Display settings and click Save button to save the changes.
Click Change advanced power settings, the Power Options popup window opens up.
Select the Plan from the Drop Down box. And change the settings or click Restore plan defaults to undo the changes. Click Ok.
6. In the Left Pane, clicking on either Require a password on wakeup or Choose what the power buttons do the window opens up as below.
From this window you can customize the Power button and Sleep button.
You can also activate the Password protection on wakeup.
Choose Require a password(recommended) and click Save Changes.
7. Click Create a power plan to create your own customized power plan.
Select a plan that is closest to the one you want to create. Type the Plan Name and click Next.
Set Turn off the display and Put the computer to sleep settings as per your requirements and then click Create.
Your Plan will be visible in the Preferred plans as an Active Plan.
Power plans help you to maximize your computer's performance or conserve energy. You can choose a plan and customize it by changing its power settings.
A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how your computer uses power.
Windows provides the following three plans to manage your computer's power:
- Balanced: Offers full performance when you need it and saves power during periods of inactivity. This is the best power plan for most people.
- Power saver: Saves power by reducing system performance and screen brightness. This plan can help laptop users get the most from a single battery charge.
- High performance: Maximizes screen brightness and might increase computer's performance in some circumstances. This plan uses a lot more energy and will reduce the amount of time that a laptop battery the lasts between charges.
Note: High performance doesn't appear on the battery meter by default. Follow the steps below to select High Performance.
Steps to customize the Power Plan for your computer:
1. Click the Start and then choose the Control Panel option.
2. Control Panel window opens up. Click All Control Panel Items then select the Power Options.
3. By default the Power saver plan is active as you can see below in the screen shot.
4. Click down arrow to Show additional plans.
5. Choose Balanced and then click Change plan settings.
The Edit Plan Settings window opens up as below.
Choose the Sleep and Display settings and click Save button to save the changes.
Click Change advanced power settings, the Power Options popup window opens up.
Select the Plan from the Drop Down box. And change the settings or click Restore plan defaults to undo the changes. Click Ok.
6. In the Left Pane, clicking on either Require a password on wakeup or Choose what the power buttons do the window opens up as below.
From this window you can customize the Power button and Sleep button.
You can also activate the Password protection on wakeup.
Choose Require a password(recommended) and click Save Changes.
7. Click Create a power plan to create your own customized power plan.
Select a plan that is closest to the one you want to create. Type the Plan Name and click Next.
Set Turn off the display and Put the computer to sleep settings as per your requirements and then click Create.
Your Plan will be visible in the Preferred plans as an Active Plan.
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