How to Reset and Restore Power Plans to Default Settings in Windows 10
A power plan is a collection of hardware and system settings that manages how computers use and conserve power. A power plan is also known as a power scheme. You can create custom power plans that are optimized for specific computers.
By default, Windows 10 includes three built-in power plans: Balanced, Power Saver, and High Performance. You can customize these existing plans for your systems, create new plans that are based on the existing plans, or create a new power plan from scratch.
Changes made to a power plan's settings will affect all users that have chosen the same power plan as their default active power scheme.
If you like, you can reset a single power plan's settings to default.
You can also completely reset and restore power plans to default on your PC. This will delete all custom power plans, and restore and reset the built-in Balanced, Power Saver, and High Performance power plans.
This tutorial will show you how to reset and restore power plans to default for all users on your Windows 10 PC.
Contents
- Option One: To Reset a Single Power Plan's Settings to Default
- Option Two: To Completely Reset and Restore All Default Power Plans to Default Settings
EXAMPLE: Power Plans restored to default
1 Open advanced power settings to change them.
2 Select the power plan (ex: High performance) you want to reset its settings to default. (see screenshot below)
3 Click/tap on the Restore plan defaults button. (see screenshot below)
4 Click/tap on Yes to confirm. (see screenshot below)
This option will delete all custom power plans, and restore and reset the settings for the built-in Balanced, Power Saver, and High Performance power plans to default.
This option will also fix the Your power plan information isn't available error below for any of the built-in Balanced, Power Saver, and High Performance power plans.
1 Open a command prompt.
2 Copy and paste the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
3 When finished, you can close the command prompt if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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