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Power
Power plans, battery, sleep, display, and hardware power behavior.
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Triggers critical battery hibernation or shutdown when battery hits 5 percent.
Technical Details: Triggers critical battery hibernation or shutdown when battery hits 5 percent.
"Forces the computer to hibernate or shut down when only 5% of battery remains to prevent data loss. The device stays on longer before forcing an emergency shutdown. The default is identically set to 5%."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Triggers low battery warnings and actions when battery hits 10 percent.
Technical Details: Triggers low battery warnings and actions when battery hits 10 percent.
"Notifies you and takes appropriate low-battery actions only when your device drops to 10% charge. You have less time to find a charger before the device sleeps. The default is identically set to 10%."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Reserves a portion of the battery to safely save your work.
Technical Details: Reserves a portion of the battery to safely save your work.
"Ensures the system keeps a 7% battery reserve so it has enough power to complete an emergency hibernation. You cannot use the last bit of battery capacity for active work. The default is also set to 7%."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Prevents your hard drives from spinning down while plugged into power.
Technical Details: Prevents your hard drives from spinning down while plugged into power.
"Hard drives will stay awake constantly when plugged into the wall, preventing the slight delay that happens when waking them up from a stopped state. Disabling this restores the default 20-minute idle timeout for turning off hard disks."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Allows all CPU cores to remain active without parking restrictions.
Technical Details: Allows all CPU cores to remain active without parking restrictions.
"Ensures that there is no limit on how many processor cores can be active simultaneously. Increased active cores mean higher power draw and temperatures. The default setting is also 100%."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Allows Windows to put unused CPU cores to sleep to save power.
Technical Details: Allows Windows to put unused CPU cores to sleep to save power.
"Permits the operating system to park inactive CPU cores to conserve energy. This introduces a slight wake-up delay when a sudden workload demands more cores. Disabling forces all cores to remain active at all times."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Ensures the CPU can reach its maximum clock speed on all power.
Technical Details: Ensures the CPU can reach its maximum clock speed on all power.
"Allows your processor to run at its full designed speed instead of being artificially limited. Your device will consume more power and generate more heat under heavy load. The default restores the state to 100%."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Forces the CPU to run at its maximum state when plugged in.
Technical Details: Forces the CPU to run at its maximum state when plugged in.
"Prevents the processor from dropping its frequency when plugged in, which can reduce latency for intensive tasks. You lose power efficiency and your computer may run hotter. Disabling restores the default minimum state to allow downclocking."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Allows Windows to reduce power to background apps to save battery.
Technical Details: Allows Windows to reduce power to background apps to save battery.
"Limits the CPU resources allocated to inactive or background applications to maximize energy efficiency. Background tasks may run slower or take longer to complete. Disabling completely turns off power throttling for all apps."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Configures the CPU to prioritize maximum performance over energy savings.
Technical Details: Configures the CPU to prioritize maximum performance over energy savings.
"Forces modern processors to bias towards performance rather than power efficiency when plugged into the wall. You lose energy savings and temperatures may increase. Disabling restores the default balanced performance preference."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Keeps the CPU clock speed higher for longer after a load drops.
Technical Details: Keeps the CPU clock speed higher for longer after a load drops.
"Prevents the processor from immediately dropping its frequency when a workload stops, preventing stuttering in bursty tasks. This leads to slightly worse battery life and higher idle temperatures. Disabling restores the stock decrease thresholds."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Makes the CPU ramp up its clock speed faster under light load.
Technical Details: Makes the CPU ramp up its clock speed faster under light load.
"Causes the processor to jump to higher frequencies with less workload demand, improving responsiveness. This will increase idle and light-load power consumption. Disabling restores the default higher threshold for ramping up."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Speeds up boot times by saving system info before shutting down.
Technical Details: Speeds up boot times by saving system info before shutting down.
"Windows will save core system components to the hard drive during shutdown, making the next cold boot significantly faster."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Allows your PC to save its exact state and turn off completely.
Technical Details: Allows your PC to save its exact state and turn off completely.
"You can put your computer into hibernation, saving all open programs to the hard drive so it uses zero power while off. Enabling this reserves disk space roughly equal to your system RAM."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Adds a Hibernate button to your Start menu power options.
Technical Details: Adds a Hibernate button to your Start menu power options.
"You will see a dedicated 'Hibernate' choice alongside Sleep, Shut down, and Restart in the Start menu."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Displays the Lock option in the Start menu power flyout.
Technical Details: Displays the Lock option in the Start menu power flyout.
"Restores the ability to lock your Windows session directly from the Start menu's power button. Disabling hides the lock option from the power menu."
Risk Level: 🟡 Medium Risk | Requires Restart: No
Overview: Displays the Sleep option in the Start menu power flyout.
Technical Details: Displays the Sleep option in the Start menu power flyout.
"Restores the ability to put your computer to sleep directly from the Start menu's power button. Disabling removes the sleep option from the power menu."