Balance Automatically balances performance and power consumption. Power saving (if supported by hardware) Reduces power consumption but reduces performance. High Performance Prefers performance, but may consume more power. Ultimate performance Achieve ultimate performance on a higher-end PC.

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Change power plan settings

Choosing a power plan

Change power plan

High performance cannot be selected!

Run command prompt with administrator privileges

Run powercfg command

Choose high performance

Try Ultimate Performance

Choose ultimate performance

Speeding up (handling when operation is heavy)

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