You finally have your new laptop in your hands. You come home, turn it on, finish the process of setting up Windows startup, and just as you’re having fun with it, you realize that something is wrong, and that it’s not performing as well as you expected. If you find yourself in this situation, don’t despair. in most cases this is not a problem but a feature today’s laptops.

It is also important to note that the way we use the laptop can also affect performance. For example, If we use it with a battery, the device activates the low power mode by default. maximize battery life, which will affect performance as well as other aspects such as screen brightness.

Why doesn’t my laptop work as it should when connected to power?

In this case, there seems to be no reasonable explanation, but the truth is that there is, and it is very simple. Windows 10 and Windows 11 allows you to use different power plans which may prioritize performance, balance or battery saving. Depending on the plan we use, the performance of our laptop can be seriously affected and the same would happen with the battery.

However, when you try to change the power plan in Windows settings, you may find that you only have one plan available. In that case, you should check out the “View More Plans” option, because it’s very likely that there will be more other plans there. If not, we can Create the best performance plan by following these steps:

• We open the command console by pressing the Windows key and typing “CMD” (without quotes).
• Once inside, copy and paste this: “powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61”, also without the quotes.
• Done, the maximum power plan should now appear in the power plan options. We can customize it if we deem it necessary.

It is also important to note that most OEMs include dedicated software that allows you to control the device’s performance profile with a single clickand that this software takes precedence over the general Windows configuration, so we need to make sure we have the high performance profile selected before we start considering a possible problem.

If we don’t have this software downloaded, we can get it through the website of the manufacturer of our deviceand completely free. These types of tools usually fix most power management and computer performance issues almost instantly, so always keep that in mind. On the other hand, don’t forget about fan profiles, which must also be configured in performance mode.

And if all this fails, what can I do?

I personally recommend you to put yourself into it contact technical support from your laptop manufacturer as they will be best able to help you resolve the issue. This way you avoid wasting time shooting blindly, although you always can try using ThrottleStop if you don’t mind messing around a bit, though this would really only be recommended for more advanced users who know what they’re doing.

This program can be downloaded completely free of charge and offers a number of options that will allow us to control and eliminate the main performance limitations that are usually associated with most current laptop processors. The configuration should be as we see it in the attached image, p The “BD PROCHOT” option is disabled.

To check if your CPU is working as it should again, you can use CPU-Z stress test and Windows 10-Windows 11 performance monitor (go to “Task Manager” and click “Performance > CPU” tab). »). If your CPU is running at 100% and reaches maximum speed, congratulations, you have the problem solved.