When you open Power Options, only the Balanced plan will be shown. Other schemes, such as “High performance,” “Ultimate,” and “Power Saver,” may be missing. This is normal on systems that support Modern Standby (S0 Low Power Idle).
You can check that by running the command “powercfg /a“. If it says the following, Modern standby is enabled:
The following sleep states are available on this system:
Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) Network Connected
Hibernate
Fast Startup
If Modern Standby is enabled, the traditional power states S1, S2, and S3 are turned off.
System Sleeping States – Windows drivers | Microsoft Learn
If you need the additional power schemes anyway, disable Modern Standby.
Workaround
Step 1: Turn off Modern Standby
To turn off Modern standby (S0 Low Power Idle), open an admin Command Prompt and run this command:
reg add HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power /v PlatformAoAcOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
Press Enter.
reg delete "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power" /v PlatformAoAcOverride /f
Restart Windows for the change to take effect.
Open Power Options and see if the additional power schemes are shown.
Step 2: Run the Powercfg commands
If they don’t appear, run the following commands from an admin Command Prompt to add the missing power plans:
Restore the Power saver power plan:
powercfg -duplicatescheme a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a
Restore the High Performance power plan:
powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
Restore the Ultimate Performance power plan:
powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61
Restore the Balanced power plan:
powercfg -duplicatescheme 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e
Close and reopen Power Options Control Panel.
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Didn’t work, ended up with 2 Balanced Power options!!
@Derek: I wonder the REG command wasn’t executed correctly. What was the output when you ran the command?
Also, what’s shown when you run “powercfg /a”?
The following sleep states are available on this system: Standby (S0 Low Power Idle ) Network Connected
Hibernate
Fast Startup.
The following Sleep States not available on this system – with other details too long to add.
Standby (S1) (S2) (S3)
@Derek.
Your output shows Modern standby is still enabled. Please rerun the “reg.exe add….” command posted in the article. Post a screenshot of the output.
Restart windows.
the “reg.exeadd…” doesnt work , following error,
“C:\Windows\System32>reg add HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power /v PlatformAoAcOverride /t REG_DWORD /d 0
ERROR: Invalid syntax. Specify valid numeric value for ‘/d’.
Type “REG ADD /?” for usage.”
@Stev:
A hidden character (zwsp) seems to be copied when you copy the command from the article. Please remove the empty character at the end of the command-line.
I’ve added a ” /f” at the end. please try the updated command below.