Policy

Select an active power plan

Microsoft Windows

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Select an active power plan
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
System > Power Management
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

This policy setting specifies the active power plan from a list of default Windows power plans. To specify a custom power plan, use the Custom Active Power Plan setting. If you enable this policy setting, specify a power plan from the Active Power Plan list. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting.

Internal name
InboxActiveSchemeOverride_2
Policy ID
138ea153687f
Elements
1

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

ScopeElementTypeRegistry mappingConstraints & behaviorCopy
Computer
Active Power Plan:
ID InboxActiveSchemeOverrideEnter
enum
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings
Value name
ActivePowerScheme
Type
REG_SZ
Options: Automatic (recommended) (381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e), Power Saver (a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a), High Performance (8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c)
Active Power Plan:
Computer · Type enum
Registry mapping
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings
Value name
ActivePowerScheme
Type
REG_SZ
Details
Options: Automatic (recommended) (381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e), Power Saver (a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a), High Performance (8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c)