Create Custom Power Plans & Use powercfg to Improve Battery Life and Performance (Win10/11)
Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 20 minutes
This guide walks you through creating tailored power plans and using the built-in powercfg command-line tool to tune battery life and performance on...
advanced power settings
battery life
battery report
command line
control panel
displaytimeout
energy report
hibernate timeout
pci express power management
plan export
plan import
power options
power plans
powercfg
powershell
processor state
sleep timeout
windows 10
windows 11
wireless power saving
Out of the box, Windows 11 ships with defaults that favour convenience, energy efficiency, and telemetry-driven features — but those same defaults can make a new PC feel noisy, slow, or invasive. This piece explains six specific settings that are worth turning off (or at least reconfiguring) on...
background processes
desktop shortcuts
disk i/o
displaytimeout
encryption
enterprise management
focus assist
it provisioning
local data
notifications
onedrive
performance
power settings
privacy
recall
search indexing
sleep mode
startup programs
system settings
windows 11
I have a dual monitor system with W-7 Pro
Power settings are to turn off the display after one hour and has been doing that for a year.
A couple of days ago, System just started to turn off the displays after about 60 seconds.
They come right back with a mouse shake or keyboard tap.
Set for 1...
Power Supply Settings.
I have a HP Pavilion Elite m9040n and Win 7 64-bit. with Super-Anti-Spyware professional and Microsoft Security Essentials.
I would like the Super-Anti-Spyware to run a daily scan starting at 2:00 AM and MSE to run a weekly scan on Sunday at 2:00 AM.
My power supply is...
antivirus
computer maintenance
daily scan
displaytimeout
hp pavilion
microsoft security essentials
pc performance
power management
power supply
scan schedule
scheduling
security software
settings
sleep mode
super-anti-spyware
system configuration
troubleshooting
user guide
weekly scan
windows 7