Ultimate Performance Power Plan¶

ID/URL: ultimate-performance-plan

Description: Enables And Applys The Windows Ultimate Powerplan for better performance

Enables the Ultimate Performance power plan by creating it if missing, retrieving its GUID, and activating it to maximize system responsiveness and performance by preventing power-saving limitations.

Recommended

This is a recommended tweak.

Apply¶

$ultimatePlan = powercfg -l | Select-String "Ultimate Performance"

  if (-not $ultimatePlan) {
      Write-Host "Ultimate Performance plan not found. Creating..." 
      powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61
  } else {
      Write-Host "Ultimate Performance plan already exists." 
  }

  # Get the GUID of the Ultimate Performance plan
  $ultimatePlanGUID = (powercfg -l | Select-String "Ultimate Performance").ToString().Split()[3]

  # Set it as the active plan
  powercfg -setactive $ultimatePlanGUID

  Write-Host "Ultimate Performance power plan is now active."

Unapply¶

$balancedGUID = "381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e"

  # check if the Balanced plan exists
  $balancedExists = powercfg -l | Select-String $balancedGUID

  if ($balancedExists) {
      powercfg -setactive $balancedGUID
      Write-Host "Balanced power plan is now active." 
  } else {
      Write-Host "Balanced power plan not found. Creating a new Balanced plan..." 
      powercfg -duplicatescheme $balancedGUID
      powercfg -setactive $balancedGUID
      Write-Host "Balanced power plan created and activated." 
  }