Windows 7 comes with three Power Plans ie. Power Saver, Balanced and High Performance. The user can select any one of these based on his needs. As such there is no option in the Control Panel for renaming, exporting or importing any of the default Power Plans. Although, you can create a new one based on these existing Power Plans.
But this is not what we need. That is why Windows 7 has provided a command line interface to play with the Power Plans. It provides a number of options which are missing in the default Power Options settings. Here is how you can use it.
Renaming Power Plans
1. Open Command Prompt as Administrator.
2. Type powercfg list and press Enter.
3. A list of all power plans will be displayed. Select the GUID of the Power Scheme you wish to rename.
4. Type powercfg –changename GUID newname and press Enter. That’s it you have renamed a Power Plan.
Exporting and Importing a Power Plan
1. Follow the Steps 1 and 2 above.
2. Select the GUID of the Power Scheme you wish to export.
3. Type powercfg -export <filename> <GUID> and press Enter.
4. The Power Scheme will be exported to the path you specified.
5. Importing a Power Scheme works the same way.
6. Type in the command powercfg –import <filename> <GUID>. Here GUID is optional.
That’s it, for a complete list of options type powercfg –? in command prompt.
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