{"id":686,"date":"2013-08-16T21:52:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T02:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.xfloyd.net\/?p=686"},"modified":"2013-08-16T21:52:28","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T02:52:28","slug":"managing-power-plans-on-win-7-with-task-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Managing power plans on win 7 with task manager."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can use Task scheduler to run powercfg.exe<\/p>\n<p>use a command window to run powercfg \/? so you can see the various commands available<\/p>\n<p>running powercfg \/l lists the codes &#8220;GUIDs&#8221; for your power schemes<\/p>\n<p>running powercfg  -s <GUID> sets the active scheme  &#8211; this is the command you want to set up in Task scheduler &#038; you&#8217;ll need to select the &#8220;Run with highest privileges&#8221; checkbox in task scheduler to run the command using admin rights [or a command line window opened with admin rights during testing].  All powercfg commands that do more than provide info will need admin rights.<br \/>\nI assume you are running Win7 [I think these items are the same in Vista but cannot check]. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use Task scheduler to run powercfg.exe use a command window to run powercfg \/? so you can see the various commands available running powercfg \/l lists the codes &#8220;GUIDs&#8221; for your power schemes running powercfg -s sets the active scheme &#8211; this is the command you want to set up in Task scheduler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xfloyd.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}