Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully.
For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. Click Start , type regedit in the Start Search box, and then click regedit. Right-click PreferredPlan , and then click Modify. Type afab-bcff20b4a to use the Power saver plan.
Type 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4aaa6e23a8cc to use the High performance plan. You can also type the power scheme GUID for a custom power plan that you have created. Note The specified power scheme in the PreferredPlan registry value cannot be explicitly shown in any UI. Regardless of this registry setting, the " Recommended " suffix is always added to the Balanced plan on the Power Options page.
For help with power consumption and battery life problems in Windows Vista, visit the following Microsoft Web page:. Fix problems in which power consumption is more than expected or the battery life is short. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. A subscription to help make the most of your time. This document provides you with additional information on how to use the PowerCfg command as well as detailed explanations of how to understand and solve the reported energy-efficiency problems and warnings.
What's your take? Are you using Windows 7 on a laptop? Are you getting more out of a single battery charge than you were with a previous operating system? Have you used the Windows 7's PowerCfg command-line tool to evaluate the efficiency of your Power Plan settings?
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Previously, he has worked as Documentation Specialist in the software industry, a Technical Support Specialist in educational industry, and a Technical Journalist in the computer publishing industry. Windows 7 makes it easy to manage power settings for different computing situations. If you find your computer mysteriously shutting down or going into sleep mode, this should also help you determine why it is happening.
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Best Wi-Fi Range Extenders. Best Oculus Quest 2 Accessories. Best iPad Air Cases. Awesome PC Accessories. While your suggestion to disable fast start up, etc. The computer can be on and in use for two hours, I step away for dinner and family time, then come back to update some stuff, and the computer has fallen back into hibernate, the Hibernate setting is 1 minute.
Looking through other questions in the forum, I am seeing Dell, Asus, etc. There is something in Windows10 that is causing this. We need to find what it is and get a standardized fix for it.
This thread, and your last post brought up a number of great points worth checking. There are three video connectors on the mother board, and none are currently connected. Just looked over my system logging and noted further aggravation - last night it was running on "Bob's High Performance Mode", but this AM it started dropping Internet connections every 3 to 4 minutes, and when I looked just now, the Power Mode was back on "Power Savings".
MS, please leave my settings alone! Our office has 3 Dell Precision Laptops - a and two Ms. All are running Windows 10 Pro. With or without docking stations, driving either the internal displays, or driving multiple external displays, they work fine.
In all cases performance is OK. Although I haven't tested each one rigorously, I have been using them since , and sometime in late or early , they finally became stable.
Knock on wood. Don't know how long they will stay that way. Those machines are all "business class" machines. Our Dell XPS desktop is a "home" class machine. Could it be that Dell and MS have an agreement not to push some configuration requirements so hard on the "business class" equipment? In every case, the Precision laptops started out going to sleep, shutting down, and monitors going off, as configured from the factory. After changing the power settings, they all gave up this behavior, and worked continuously, as I intended.
They are still doing so, after updating to Windows 10 Pro, Version , a month or two ago. The only question is how long will they keep doing it as I intend? Note that in these cases, minor changes and updates did not reset the configuration, but in significant feature updates Windows Versions , , and , I needed to do at least some "reconfiguration" to get things back to the way I want them to run.
Most obvious is the need to reconfigure the system to use my preferred "screen saver", and requiring re-entry of password, after it takes over. I could go on railing about why MS Windows changes something that was important enough for me to set the way I wanted, but at least I could set it, and it doesn't revert at every small update, or overnight, or even more frequently, by itself.
Even Windows 7 updates still have problems, like last Wednesday's security updates KB , which broke my small office network for two key Windows 7 machines. But at least on our older windows 10 equipment, with older hardware, they have been functioning without the power saving function shutting down my displays and computer. So far. You have probably already done something like this.
I needed to uncheck all of those checkboxes to get my external USB drives to run continuously and support nigh time backups. I looked at the information for my system and there are no devices for the displays adapters or monitors that have "Power Management" tabs, so I don't think you would have this kind of setting problem, but you never know.
These settings are an example of those which need to be reset after every major update, on all my systems, at least for me, so far. Right now we have focusing on MS, and or the manufacture of the machine.
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