Windows 10 allows you to use different power plans as per you need. You’ve the flexibility to customize these power plans so that you get them working as you want. At some point, if you need to restore these power plans to their default settings, this guide will help you with that.

Restoring the power plan to its default will help you re-configure it easily. This will be particularly beneficial for the system which has multiple user accounts. Because when you change setting for a power plan, it will affect the other user as well, who has opted for same power plan. Note that you can also create custom power plan and force Windows 10 to use it.

This guide will show you two different methods. First will allow you to restore a single power plan to its default settings. Second method will illustrate you steps to restore all power plan to their default values. These methods are equally valid for older Windows 7, 8, 8.1 also.

Here’s the how-to part:

How To Restore Default Settings For Power Plan In Windows 10/8.1/8/7

Method 1 – Restore Specific Power Plan To Default Settings

1. Right click battery or power icon on taskbar and select Power options. If battery icon is missing, refer this fix first.

How To Restore Default Settings For Power Plan In Windows 10

2. In the Power Options window, pick the plan for which you want to restore default settings and click Change plan settings link.

How To Restore Default Settings For Power Plan In Windows 10

3. Under Edit Plan Settings window, click Change advanced power settings link.

How To Restore Default Settings For Power Plan In Windows 10

4. Moving on, in Power Options window, click on Restore plan defaults.

How To Restore Default Settings For Power Plan In Windows 10

5. On the confirmation prompt appearing next, click Yes. This should finally restore default settings on the selected plan.

How To Restore Default Settings For Power Plan In Windows 10

To restore all power plans to their defaults, refer Method 2 below.

Method 2 – Restore Specific Power Plan To Default Settings

1. Right click Start Button or press W8K + X keys and select Command Prompt (Admin) to open Command Prompt as administrator.

2. In administrative or elevated Command Prompt window, type/paste following and press Enter key.

powercfg -restoredefaultschemes

How To Restore Default Settings For Power Plan In Windows 10

3. This should restore power plans to their defaults. You can close Command Prompt and return to Desktop, if you like.

That’s it!

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  • fred

    When you write an article only about laptops, you should state that in the title

  • Kapil Arya

    ^^ Feedback noted.

  • Daniel Pearson

    This didn’t restore my ability to hibernate.

  • Hector Monsalve

    powercfg -restoredefaultschemes instead of solving the problem, deleted all of the power
    plans

  • Kapil Arya

    ^^ That command is only to restore default power plans.

  • sarah

    did not restore the hibernate option for me

  • Kapil Arya

    ^^ Some machines don’t have that option. Did Hibernate option was earlier available on your system?

  • alf

    Not working as expected. Hibernation selection does not appear.

  • Hassan

    try to change hibernate file type to full :
    powercfg /Hibernate /type full
    and activate hibernate :
    powercfg /Hibernate on
    and check if hibernate mode is now available :
    powercfg /AvailableSleepStates

  • R. Myers

    Thanks Hassan–Your Solution worked perfectly. Probably saved me a lot of fiddling and maybe rollbacks. Ran from elevated cmd prompt–don’t know if that was necessary, but it worked, so…

  • Kapil Arya

    ^^ Thanks for confirming that solution.

  • Ramakrishna

    I followed Hassan’s solution. The last command shows the following.
    The following sleep states are available on this system:
    Standby (S3)
    Hibernate
    Fast Startup

    However, “start” -> “power” button does not still have hibernate option.

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