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Using Powercfg to Duplicate an Existing Power Scheme (last updated October 10, 2016)

For this tip we want to duplicate a power scheme. First, we'll get a list of the available power schemes (covered under another tip). (See Figure 1.) Figure 1. Powercfg -list.

Now let's say we want to duplicate the Balanced power scheme so that we can later tweak it without worrying about messing up the current Balance scheme. The switch you pass to Powercfg is the "-DUPLICATESCHEME" followed by the GUID of the scheme we want to duplicate: (See Figure 2.) Figure 2. Powercfg -duplicatescheme.

Note that when we issued the -DUPLICATESCHEME command, the GUID of the duplicated scheme and its name were listed. Our next -LIST command shows that we now have two Balanced schemes, but the first one remains the active power scheme. We should now change the name of the newly created Balanced scheme (with -CHANGENAME, covered under another Tip) so we can modify it without getting confused. This tip (13480) applies to Windows 7, 8, and 10.




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