{"id":12582,"date":"2018-08-23T00:29:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T00:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=12582"},"modified":"2023-06-29T02:09:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T02:09:38","slug":"delete-custom-or-built-in-power-plan-in-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/delete-custom-or-built-in-power-plan-in-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete Custom or Built-in Power Plan in Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do I delete a power plan that I no longer need? Windows allows you to use the built-in power plans (Balanced, Power Saver, and High Performance) or create a new power plan from scratch<\/a>. This tutorial will show you 2 methods to delete custom or built-in power plan in Windows 11 \/ 10 \/ 8 \/ 7.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Delete Custom Power Plan Using Control Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Press the Windows and R keys together to open the Run dialog box. Type powercfg.cpl<\/strong> and press Enter to access one of the Control Panel applets – Power Options<\/a>.\n

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  2. To delete a custom power plan, you first have to choose another power plan as the active one. Then click on the link “Change plan settings<\/strong>” next to the custom power plan you want to delete.\n

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  3. In the next window, click on Delete this plan<\/strong> link at the bottom.\n

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  4. Click OK<\/strong> to confirm the operation.\n

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  5. After deleting the power plan, it will disappear from the Power Options window.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Delete Custom or Built-in Power Plan Using Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In addition to deleting custom power plan, this method also allows you to delete built-in power plans in Windows 10 \/ 8 \/ 7. Follow these steps:<\/p>\n

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    1. Open the Command Prompt as administrator<\/a>. Run the powercfg \/list<\/strong> command and it will list all existing power plans in your system along with their GUIDs.\n

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      \tIf the power plan you want to delete is active, then you have to set another plan as active by running this command:
      \npowercfg -setactive GUID<\/code><\/li>\n

    2. Now, you can delete the desired power plan using the following command.
      \npowercfg -delete GUID<\/code><\/p>\n

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    3. When it’s done, the selected power plan is deleted and you cannot use it anymore.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How do I delete a power plan that I no longer need? Windows allows you to use the built-in power plans (Balanced, Power Saver, and High Performance) or create a new power plan from scratch. This tutorial will show you 2 methods to delete custom or built-in power plan in Windows 11 \/ 10 \/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,4713,3,39],"tags":[3938,3937,5218],"class_list":["post-12582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-11","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","tag-delete-custom-power-plan-windows-7","tag-delete-power-plan-in-windows-10","tag-delete-power-plan-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12582"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20054,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12582\/revisions\/20054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}