Have you ever wanted to quickly switch from High Performance to Power Saver mode to save some battery life? With a quick command line in a shortcut, you can do it with a keystroke.
Here’s a quick-and-dirty method to create a shortcut for switching between Windows power management plans—and once you have the command line, you can make a shortcut (for on the Desktop) or assign a hotkey to switch on the fly. Simply create a shortcut to the following, substituting the name of the power management plan.
powercfg /setactive 'Plan Name Here'Once you have tested the command line… the sky is the limit.
You could make a windows shortcut with the command line, or use other tools to create a hotkey that will activate the different power modes….
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