Policy

Specify a custom active power plan

Microsoft Windows

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Specify a custom 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 specified power plan’s GUID. The GUID for a custom power plan GUID can be retrieved by using powercfg, the power configuration command line tool. If you enable this policy setting, you must specify a power plan, specified as a GUID using the following format: XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX (For example, 103eea6e-9fcd-4544-a713-c282d8e50083), indicating the power plan to be active. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can see and change this setting.

Internal name
CustomActiveSchemeOverride_2
Policy ID
0bfe5730277b
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
Custom Active Power Plan (GUID):
ID CustomActiveSchemeOverrideEnter
text
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings
Value name
ActivePowerScheme
Type
REG_SZ
None
Custom Active Power Plan (GUID):
Computer · Type text
Registry mapping
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings
Value name
ActivePowerScheme
Type
REG_SZ
DetailsNone