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🌱How to save battery on windows 11


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Scott Kingery
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In Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options:

  • Click Create new Power Plan
    • This creates a new plan based on how you have Balanced set
      In a Windows terminal (run as admin) Run the following commands:
  • Set the PC to show Performance Boost Mode
powercfg -attributes SUB_PROCESSOR PERFBOOSTMODE -ATTRIB_HIDE
  • Turn off Performance Boost Mode on Battery using the current battery profile
powercfg /setdcvalueindex SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR PERFBOOSTMODE 0
  • Set active
powercfg /setactive SCHEME_CURRENT
  • Verify the setting (you should see "Current DC Power Setting Index: 0x00000000")
powercfg /query SCHEME_CURRENT SUB_PROCESSOR PERFBOOSTMODE

The above is based on:
I changed one hidden Windows setting, and my laptop saw 36% less battery drain
Add or Remove "Processor performance boost mode" in Power Options on Windows 11 | Windows 11 Forum

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