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Power Plan Assistant is the world’s smartest power management tool for Windows 7, 8 and 10. It’s an ultimate automatic & manual power plan switcher with a compact yet very informative Power Icon and other goods for a PC or Mac running Windows via Boot Camp.

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Power Plan Assistant is the world’s smartest power management tool for Windows 7, 8 and 10. It’s an ultimate automatic & manual power plan switcher with a compact yet very informative Power Icon and other goods for a PC or Mac running Windows via Boot Camp.

Power Plan Assistant application can be considered as «donationware»: it’s totally free to use, although the users are welcome to support the development by making a voluntary donation. Every donator receives the permanent Personal Serial Number for Power Plan Assistant tool!

With Power Plan Assistant you can:

1. Easily switch between the Windows built-in/custom power plans (all plans, not 2, as when operating via system Power icon) and instantly power off the display on user’s demand (why wait at least one minute for it to be powered off, wasting energy?). It can be waked up then by pressing any key or moving the cursor;

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FIX: Windows 10 power plans are missing

Windows 10 power plans disappeared, how do I bring them back?

In Windows, a power plan is a set of hardware and system options that defines how power is used and preserved by your device.

The three built-in power plans include: Balanced, Power Saver and High Performance. All these can be customized for your systems, or you can create new plans based on the existing ones, or a completely new power plan from scratch.

Balanced plan offers full performance when needed, and saves the power when you don’t need it. Power saver, on the other hand saves your power by reducing performance and screen brightness. High performance maximizes your screen brightness and my increase performance; it uses more energy.

There’s another power plan: Ultimate performance. This is only available by default in Windows 10 Pro for Workstations edition starting with build 17101 for ultimate performance on higher end computers.

Any changes you make to the settings of any power plan affects all users that chose the same plan as their default power scheme.

For Windows 10, a new user interface allows you to change the power related options. The classic Control Panel is losing its features and may be replaced in entirety by the Settings app which already has most settings from the control pane.

However, Settings doesn’t have the ability to delete a power plan yet, so you’re still stuck with Control Panel.

While all this is said and done, sometimes, much to your dismay, you may notice that in Power Options, one of the power plan or plans goes missing. You’ve probably even searched the web for solutions and none of them worked to restore the power plans.

Here are some solutions you can try that will help you get back your Windows 10 missing power plans.

What to do if Windows 10 power plans aren’t showing up?

1. Use Powercfg tool

2. Create a Power Plan

3. Restore default power plans

4. Import a Power Plan

5. Check Power Options settings

If you find Windows 10 missing power plans, check the following:

Check if your power plans are there. It includes the Additional Power Settings link under Related Settings.

6. Run Power Troubleshooter

7. Change Registry settings

Did any of these solutions help bring back your Windows 10 missing power plans? Let us know in the comments box below.

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Driver Booster Power Plan в электропитании — что это такое? (Windows 7, Windows 10)

Приветствую всех! Ребята, мы все хотим чтобы ПК работал быстро и для этого используем всякий софт, который далеко не всегда нужен. И может не только быть бесполезным, но и опасным.

Driver Booster Power Plan — что это такое?

Схема питания от ПО Driver Booster, дает примерно такой же эффект как и схема высокой производительности.

Откуда взялась? Все просто — вы установили программу Driver Booster, которая добавила в Windows свою схему питания, которая якобы лучше всех.

Чтобы открыть данное окно: зажмите Win + R > вставьте команду control или control panel > откроется панель управления, найдите значок Электропитание и запустите.

Мой совет — удалить схему питания, потому что от нее толка нет никакого и лучше использовать штатные схемы Windows.

Driver Booster — что это за программа?

Очередная программа по обновлению драйверов, то есть может сама найти нужный драйвер, скачать его и установить:

Часто подобные программы качеством работы не отличаются, но при этом имеют красочный дизайн:

Я уже молчу что прога платная.

Но на практике никто не гарантирует что будет все четко — например драйвер может установиться старый, да и не всегда находит нужные дрова.

Оказывается прога может не только обновлять драйвера, но и обновлять некоторые компоненты:

Все это — компоненты, которые нужны для работы многих программ. Я бы не советовал устанавливать их через Driver Booster, лучше всего просто скачать самостоятельно с официального сайта.

По поводу обновления драйверов — я лично тоже эту прогу не советую. Вообще подобных программ развелось много, работают не всегда качественно, зато дизайн и внешняя оболочка часто хорошо сделаны.

Единственная программа, которую использовал для обновления дров и которую могу рекомендовать — DevID Agent.

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Fix Only Balanced Power Plan Available in Windows 10

How to Fix Only Balanced Power Plan Available in Windows 10

By default, Windows 10 includes power plans like High Performance, Balanced, Power Saver, etc. These plans are designed to quickly let you switch a group of hardware and system power settings (like display, sleep, etc). Sometimes only the balanced power plan is available in Windows 10 power options. Here is how to fix this.

Your PC can have additional power plans defined by its vendor. Also, you can create a custom power plan that will include your personal preferences. These power settings affect how long your battery lasts and how much power your PC consumes. It is possible to customize these power plan settings using advanced power options.

Windows 10 comes with a new UI again to change the operating system’s power related options. The classic Control Panel is losing its features and probably will be replaced by the Settings app. The Settings app has already got many options which were exclusively available in the Control Panel. The battery notification area icon in the Windows 10 system tray was also replaced with a new Modern UI.

If you have a modern PC, you may be surprised to find that the only available Power Plan is Balanced. All other power schemes are hidden and not available anywhere in the GUI.

Power Plans are missing

The reason behind this issue is that modern PCs use a new power efficient technology, known as S0 Low Power Standby, or Modern Standby.

It is a special Sleep State that enables an instant on / instant off user experience, similar to smartphone power models. Just like the phone, the S0 low power idle model enables the system to stay up-to-date whenever a suitable network is available.

Although Modern Standby enables an instant on/off user experience like Connected Standby, Modern Standby is more inclusive than the Windows 8.1 Connected Standby power model. Modern Standby allows for market segments previously limited to the S3 power model to take advantage of the low power idle model. Example systems include systems based on rotational media and hybrid media (for example, SSD + HDD or SSHD) and/or a NIC that doesn’t support all of the prior requirements for Connected Standby.

When the hardware supports this modern Standby mode, the motherboard firmware (e.g. BIOS) may exclusively stick to that mode, and prevent other power modes from being reported to the OS. That is not a bug, it is by design. If you need to use other Power plans in Windows 10, you need to reconfigure the firmware of your device’s motherboard.

To Fix Only Balanced Power Plan Available in Windows 10

Note: The Other OS option is actually designed to allow you to install some other OS, like Linux. It might or might not interfere with the Secure Boot option, and UEFI boot mode. It actually depends on the current firmware implementation of the specific device. If you run into trouble after changing the option, revert the changes back.

Thanks to deskmodder for the tip.

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Author: Sergey Tkachenko

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Do modern PCs have SSDs instead of HDDs?

Many of them have SSDs instead of HDDs.

I was looking at the power settings in the Control Panel, because I wanted to disable suspend when lid closed when plugged in.
After doing that, I clicked “Save changes”, and High Performance was there, along with Balanced (which was selected).
Then, I clicked on the battery icon, set it to all the way to the right, and High Performance was still there. Then, I closed Control Panel.
Later, I opened it again, and there was only Balanced.
And powercfg /a says that S0 is not supported by the firmware*.

* There’s quite a bit of backstory.
after all, the stupid ‘technician’ that cleaned the cooler decided to format the HDD¹,
without backing up the other partitions or even the hidden folders on Windows.
And he also “fixed” the BIOS [this is a Vostro 3560, with a very option-rich BIOS (well, until he broke it)], flashing a stupid BIOS with just basic options.
He installed Windows 10, as well as Firefox, Avast Secure Browser, Opera, Chrome (why so many browsers. ), VLC, Nero, CyberLink (why so many video stuff)…
Well, at least he installed Avast and Office 2019.

¹[I was using Puppy Linux, therefore I deleted System32 because it wasn’t needed, and I was using a live CD to boot and load the save on the HDD. I removed the CD so he could safely remove the lid, but he couldn’t boot to check the temperature. Therefore, he thought something else was broken and formatted the whole drive and made a single partition.]

Months earlier (I was still using Windows by that point), I sent the same computer to another technician from the same shop.

The screen had a glitched square on the far right, even when I started in safe mode. Because of a single wrong bit in the HDD’s firmware area, because of an error in the initial OEM write.
He replaced it, said “The HDD wasn’t talking [sic] to the motherboard correctly. I didn’t have any 1TB drive, so I copied the used part.” (And I explicitly said that he should use the Linux ‘dd’ command, which he clearly didn’t.)

The time I sent the computer to clean the cooler, I made sure to send it to the most experienced technician in the shop.

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How to Restore Missing Power Plan Options on Windows 10

On Windows 10, Power Options allows you to customize your Power Usage – as per requirements. Technically, a power plan is a set of hardware and system settings that defines how power is used and preserved by your computer. There are three built-in power plans: Balanced, Power Saver and High Performance. They can be customised for your system, or you can create new plans based on them.

What Causes Power Options to go Missing?

Many users have reported variations of missing power plans, such as only balance power plan is available and the high performance power plan is missing. This could be due to a system corruption or a Windows Update recently installed which may have modified the registry or tweaked the power options.

We have gathered some working solutions so make sure you try them out. Good luck!

Solution 1: Restore Them Manually

If a Windows Update or something else you did has removed the power plans from your computer, you can get to them by running commands which will recreate them and have them available on your computer the same way as they were before. There are two ways you can do this and it depends on what you prefer.

Command Prompt:

You can restore the missing power plan settings simply by running several commands in Command Prompt.

Note: The last command can only work on Windows 10 versions after the 17101 build as it’s related to restoring the Ultimate Performance Power Plan available for the newest Windows 10 builds for workstations.

Download the Files Yourself:

You can download the required files easily from a guide made by TenForums and it contains the “.pow” files which are used to represent a power plan.

Solution 2: Use the Following Registry Hack

If a Windows Update has indeed hidden these options, it’s possible that Windows it trying to replace this feature or push it into the history by replacing it with other features. If you still wich to use this exact option, you can turn it on using the following registry hack.

Since you will have to edit a registry key, we recommend you check out this article we have made for you to safely backup your registry to prevent unwanted side effects which shouldn’t occur if you just follow the steps carefully.

Note: If this didn’t work out for you, you can try adding an option to show these power plans individually for every power plan your computer knows about.

Solution 3: A Useful Workaround

This workaround can be used quite easily if you want to add the power option which is missing quite easily. Since a new build of Windows usually only leaves the Balanced power plan intact, you can add it (or any other default plan) easily by creating a new plan which is exactly the same as this one.

Solution 4: Check for the New Battery Slider

From the latest build of Windows, it appears that the power options have now started to change for users who didn’t perform the steps above and everyone will get to see the new slider you can use to either set everything to high performance or to save battery life.

Also, these settings will now be managed through the Settings tool and not via Control Panel.

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