How to enable the Ultimate Performance plan in Windows 11

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Windows 11 supports several power modes by default. These allow users to customize the power consumption of the device.

By default, only a few power modes are available: balanced, power saver, and high performance. Here is how they differ:

• Balanced: attempts to balance performance and energy consumption.
  
• Save Power: attempts to save power by reducing performance.
  
• High performance: improves performance, but may require more energy.
  

What Microsoft does not tell its users is that Windows 11 supports more power modes. These are not shown by default, however and need to be enabled by administrators before they become available.

One of these modes is Ultimate Performance. This mode is available on Windows 11 Pro for Workstations systems only by default. It can be activated on other systems. Here is what it does:

• Ultimate Performance: ensures maximum performance on high-end PCs
  

Tip: you may enable the Ultimate power plan on Windows 10 as well.

How to enable Ultimate Performance mode in Windows 11



It takes just a few steps to add the Ultimate Performance power plan to the Windows 11 system.

1. Use the keyboard shortcut Windows-X to open the secret menu.
   
2. Launch Terminal from the menu.
   
3. Type the command powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61.
   
4. Press the Enter-key.
   

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