Hello,
Since I installed avast my windows power plan is changing itself from “high performance” to “balanced”.
I tried to uninstall avast using the avast cleaner tool and once it finished the problem what gone.
I can’t use any power plan because it immediately changes back to “balanced”.
I’m not using the avast gaming mode.
I’m using avast 17.x Free on Windows 10 (x64).
Thanks for any help.
I run the same OS as you and the latest version of Avast.
As you can see no such action on my system:
http://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1490193368989-77300.png
Wonder if you have something else that’s causing it ???
In case your interested, I use the following to manage my power settings:
https://bitsum.com/
Strange. I just uninstalled avast again to test it and this time the problem still occured.
Sigh… I guess this can be closed because it’s something else causing the problem.
Thanks anyways.
Edit: I kinda fixed the problem by changing the default power plan from “balanced” to “high performance”. Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQtWqrpOLOI
In case your interested, I use the following to manage my power settings: https://bitsum.com/
Thanks, I’ll take a look.
I just “fixed” my problem, just in case anyone will ever encounter the same problem:
It’s Avast alright an not something else. Although one can never rule out something else, but in this case, Avast.
[ol]- Open Windows Event Viewer
You’ll find entries like:
Process C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\AvastSvc.exe (process ID:2944) reset policy scheme from {a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a} to {8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c}
That’s when Avast changed your power plan. If you want to know the display names of the power plans, you can do this in a Powershell prompt:
`PS> Get-WmiObject -Class win32_powerplan -Namespace root\cimv2\power | select ElementName,InstanceID
ElementName InstanceID
Balanced Microsoft:PowerPlan{381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e}
High performance Microsoft:PowerPlan{8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c}
Power saver Microsoft:PowerPlan{a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a}`
So in my case Avast changed from Power saver to High Performance. Since my laptop makes a lot of noise on High Performance and since Avast changes the plan randomly (sometimes within one minute after I’ve set it back, or after four or five minutes or even after ten minutes), it is pretty annoying.
I use the tool AC-Power Saver in the tray to change the power plan. Now I’ve changed te plan to High Performance and then back again to Power saver via the Control Panel > Power Options, see if that helps. 14 minutes past since and Avast hasn’t switched it back to High Performance yet. Fingers crossed.
But they really need to fix this.
Do you have the Game Mode component installed?
Hi SR51,
I think so. Under Perfomance there is an option Game mode that is turned on.
And it says something about highest priority for games.
Could you remove that component via Settings > Components > Game Mode > Uninstall
Does the issue persist?
There’s a chance there’s a setting in Game Mode that can be altered to fix your issue so take a look there too.
I don’t use Game Mode but I’m certain that’s what is causing this.
I’ve removed it. Changed plan back to Power saver, now we wait…
Did you reboot the computer just to ensure the component has been fully removed?
No, cause I’m working right now on the laptop. But plan hasn’t been reset since.
Yeah, it shouldn’t reset now. Best to reboot though, when you get a chance.
Wow, now I finally know what is screwing around with my power plan settings. I thought the games were doing this.
Is there a way to get rid of this without losing the other gaming mode features like no popups? Because high performance is a bad setting on my AMD FX 8370E, because that reduces my max turbo clock as CPU cores cannot be parked any more.