High performance Power plan missing.

Anonymous
2020-06-07T09:16:10+00:00

Hi, i have a surface laptop and i cant change my performance in power options in control panel, it would just show balanced for me, and when i press create a new power plan i cant see high performance, it only shows balance, i need a way to get high performance can anyone please help me? 

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Anonymous
2020-07-26T14:07:19+00:00

This is a temporary fix i guess, but it works for me nonetheless

using the command:

"powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c"

does not add the plan high performance in this power plan. So i ended up forcing the plan to run from cmd with this code:

"powercfg -s 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c"

and create the ".bat" file to have a launcher so i don't have to type whenever i need to use the plan. The plan runs after couple seconds of delay and appear alongside with "balanced plan". If you change the plan to the original one, the high performance one will dissapear so you need to launch the code again.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-08-28T12:16:26+00:00

    Like others I have had this problem since the 2004 update. CsEnabled isn't in the registry, and the PowerShell commands return "Not supported". I currently can't use my Surface Pro 7 for it's intended purpose when plugged in.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-28T13:09:41+00:00

    Right, I didn't have CsEnabled either. What success I had was by using the powercfg -attributes commands, as recommended in earlier posters.

    Would be nice if an actual Microsoft person chimed in on what their direction is on this and why the decided to take this control away from their users.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-31T22:13:37+00:00

    Hi Brian,

    After having searched all over youtube and several search engines, your response proves to be working perfectly fine! That command did run as advised by yourself and vanishes the moment you select "Balanced Mode". However, my questions here are: 

    1. Does the High performance mode really make any difference to the performance (Currently, I have 8 GB SSD)? 
    2. Can you also advise a command for "Ultimate performance" that can be forced to run just like the "High Performance" mode? The commands I found on youtube for "Ultimate performance mode" is: 

    Ultimate performance:

    powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61

    High Performance: powercfg -duplicatescheme 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c

    Your response would be much appreciated. Cheers!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-09-06T15:15:43+00:00

    I am having the same problem.  I bought a top end Surface Pro 4 with i7 and 16 Gb of RAM so I could dock and do development when plugged in, and have a lightweight machine to take when meeting clients and not have to run two machines and/or copy files around.

    Thanks to MS because of this update I now have a $2,000 machine that maxxes out between running chrome, AV, teams, and handful of basic apps.  Please quit being my chaperone and let me decide how to best use my computer.  Give us back the high performance mode and let us change power settings like Windows has operated for 15 years.

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