Last Updated on February 25, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

Windows 10 comes with an Energy Saver mode to help you conserve more battery power on your laptops and other computers that can run on battery power instead of just being plugged into the wall.

The Energy Saver settings are available from the Settings application by default, but you’ll have to make a registry tweak to get them available from the Power Options dialog. Some people prefer having the Energy Saver settings from the Power Options because they know they can get to the Power Options menu easier and with little thought involved.

When you make the Energy Saver settings available from the Power Options dialog, you get three subcategory settings along with it: display brightness weight, energy saver policy, and the charge level.

The following tutorial demonstrates how to add the energy saver settings to the Power Options menu when you’re using a version of the Windows 10 operating system.

An example of what the Energy saver settings looks like from the Power Options dialog when you have it enabled:

How to Add Energy Saver to Power Options Using Registry Editor

Here is how you can add the Energy Saver settings to the Power Options dialog from the Registry Editor application:

1. Open the Registry Editor app by pressing the Windows logo + R keys to open Runand then typing regedit and clicking OK, or by typing regedit into Search.

2. Using the Registry Editor’s left pane, navigate through to the following keys. (click to enlarge screenshot below)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\DE830923-A562-41AF-A086-E3A2C6BAD2DA

3. In the right pane, double-click on the Attributes 32-bit DWORD value to edit it.

4. In the Value data field, change the number from 1 to 2.

5. Using the Registry Editor’s left pane, navigate through to the following keys. (click to enlarge screenshot below)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\DE830923-A562-41AF-A086-E3A2C6BAD2DA\13D09884-F74E-474A-A852-B6BDE8AD03A8

6. In the right pane, double-click on the Attributes 32-bit DWORD value to edit it.

7. In the Value data field, change the number from 1 to 2.

8. Using the Registry Editor’s left pane, navigate through to the following keys. (click to enlarge screenshot below)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\DE830923-A562-41AF-A086-E3A2C6BAD2DA\5C5BB349-AD29-4ee2-9D0B-2B25270F7A81

9. In the right pane, double-click on the Attributes 32-bit DWORD value to edit it.

10. In the Value data field, change the number from 1 to 2.

To Open Power Options

Here is how you can now find the new Energy saver settings from the Power Options by following the rest of the guide below:

1. Type Power Options into the search box in the taskbar and then click on the Power & sleep settings that appears under the Best match section.

2. From the right side of the Power & Sleep window in settings, click on the Additional power settings link available under the Related settings heading.

3. Under the Preferred plans heading, click on the Change plan settings link next to the current power plan that you have assigned to your computer. (click to enlarge screenshot below)

Click on the Change advanced power settings link. (click to enlarge screenshot below)

From the Power Options dialog, scroll down until you get to Energy Saver settings and click to expand it.

That’s all.