Power Options Keep Resetting

Stigg said:

My ASUS Zephyrus M laptop power plan keeps changing from Balanced to High Performance. I'll have to check this when I am on it.

I thought it must have been the Windows 10 v2004 update. Maybe not.

I honestly think that somehow Windows 10 v2004 caused a conflict with Bitdefender. This never happened until I updated Windows 10 to v2004, recently, and honestly, I'd never even touched the Profiles settings in Bitdefender, so I assume they were always set to automatically adjust the profile based on the power needs of what I was doing at that point in time. Unfortunately, I don't really have any way of telling. I mean, I could probably rollback the update, maybe...I'm not sure how that would work, anyways, then test it. That kind of seems like too much work, though, considering it seems like I got it working the way I want it to, now, so I'm not going to touch it. Maybe someone else who hasn't upgraded yet to Windows 10 v2004, can confirm, before and after?

Eksy61 said:

A while back, my Power Plans also started getting changed for no obvious reason. But in my case, it had nothing to do with Windows. It turned out that a third-party application, ASUS AiSuite, was resetting the power plans to be consistent with the power settings it had created for my CPU. I found this out by running Event Viewer and noting when the power plan was getting reset.

If you have AiSuite or any other third-party app that tries to optimize performance on your PC, it may be resetting the power plans itself.

I had the same problem, and it turned out to be AI suite. I've been pulling my hair out for days over this, and I created this account just to verify this solution and to thank you.

I did resolve the issue, not sure if I explicitly said so or not. I ended up uninstalling Bitdefender completely, I had to manually delete some files that I found by just searching my computer under "Bitdefender", then re-installed.

BGnATC said:

I had the same problem, and it turned out to be AI suite. I've been pulling my hair out for days over this, and I created this account just to verify this solution and to thank you.

You're very welcome.

If you're unable to adjust AI Suite's power settings to stop resetting your power plan, you can create a scheduled task (in Task Scheduler) that will run a batch file to reset the policy scheme after AiSuite has meddled with it.
Alternatively, you can use some other fan control application like Argus Monitor, and stop using AiSuite altogether.

I believe disabling the EPU tool in the AiSuite should do the trick