Recently we blogged about how to rename default power plans in Windows 7. One of our readers has asked is it possible to delete one or more power plans present in Windows 7?
As you may know, one can easily delete newly created custom plans in Windows 7. But Windows doesn’t allow you delete the default power plans (Balanced, High Performance, or Power Saver).
In this guide we will show you how to delete default power plans in Windows 7.
# Open Command Prompt with administrator privileges.
# Type Powercfg List command to view the existing power schemes and their GUIDs.
# Now type the below mentioned command and hit enter:
Powercfg -Delete GUID
In the above command, replace GUID with scheme’s GUID that you have obtained in the above step.
Nath says
THANK YOU! My VLC player decided all by itself to switch to High Performance everytime I opened it and I was going insane already. I don’t even ever use HP! I thought I could find a solution in VLC forums but only you finally solved my problem. Thank you very much :)
Tom says
Powercfg -Delete then your —> 47d6c89a-70de-47b5-adb0-966b2a284921
so your Powercfg -Delete 47d6c89a-70de-47b5-adb0-966b2a284921 not with the GUID
then Enter
Hope this helps
Thanks for the info
Ben says
It says invalid paremeters when I try it