{"id":76307,"date":"2024-08-11T12:51:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T07:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=76307"},"modified":"2025-02-27T22:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T16:57:35","slug":"power-options-only-balanced-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/power-options-only-balanced-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Options Shows Only “Balanced” Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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).<\/p>\n

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You can check that by running the command “powercfg \/a<\/strong>“. If it says the following, Modern standby<\/a> is enabled:<\/p>\n

The following sleep states are available on this system:\r\n    Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) Network Connected\r\n    Hibernate\r\n    Fast Startup\r\n<\/pre>\n
If Modern Standby is enabled, the traditional power states S1, S2, and S3 are turned off.<\/p>\n
System Sleeping States – Windows drivers | Microsoft Learn<\/a><\/p>\n
If you need the additional power schemes anyway, disable Modern Standby.<\/p>\n
Workaround<\/h2>\n
Step 1: Turn off Modern Standby<\/h3>\n
To turn off Modern standby (S0 Low Power Idle), open an admin Command Prompt and run this command:<\/p>\n
\r\nreg add HKLM\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Power \/v PlatformAoAcOverride \/t REG_DWORD \/d 0 \/f\r\n<\/pre>\n
Press Enter.<\/p>\n
Note: If you later wish to undo (reverse) the above setting to reenable Modern Standby, run:<\/p>\n
\r\nreg delete  \"HKLM\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Power\" \/v PlatformAoAcOverride \/f\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
Restart Windows for the change to take effect.<\/p>\n
Open Power Options and see if the additional power schemes are shown.<\/p>\n
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Step 2: Run the Powercfg commands<\/h3>\n
If they don’t appear, run the following commands from an admin Command Prompt to add the missing power plans:<\/p>\n
Restore the Power saver power plan:<\/strong><\/p>\n
powercfg -duplicatescheme a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a<\/pre>\n
Restore the High Performance power plan:<\/strong><\/p>\n
powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c<\/pre>\n
Restore the Ultimate Performance power plan:<\/strong><\/p>\n
powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61<\/pre>\n
Restore the Balanced power plan:<\/strong><\/p>\n
powercfg -duplicatescheme 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e<\/pre>\n
Close and reopen Power Options Control Panel.<\/p>\n
\"power<\/p>\n
RELATED: <\/strong>What is Ultimate Performance Plan in Windows 10\/11 Power Options<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,869],"tags":[394,395,441],"class_list":["post-76307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-10","category-windows-11","tag-power-options","tag-powercfg","tag-registry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4868,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/disable-hibernation-without-disabling-fast-startup\/","url_meta":{"origin":76307,"position":0},"title":"How to Disable Hibernation Without Disabling Fast Startup","author":"Ramesh","date":"December 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Fast Startup is a feature in Windows 8 and 10, which speeds up the boot process significantly. 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