Laptop running hot after tweaking? Check the power plan

1. 1

   Switch off the power plan tweak

   In Frozen Tweaks, switch off Optimize Windows Power Plan. The app switches back to the power plan you used before and deletes the Frozen Ultimate Power Plan it made.

2. 2

   Or pick Balanced yourself

   Press Windows key + R, type powercfg.cpl and press Enter. Select Balanced (recommended). After the Pro one-click run, this is the way to change the plan.

3. 3

   Check two more tweaks

   Disable Power Throttling (free) and Disable CPU Core Parking (Pro) cost battery and add heat on laptops. Switch them off if you often play on battery.

A power plan decides how quickly Windows raises and lowers your CPU's speed and which parts may save power. A high-performance plan keeps the CPU ready for sudden load, which is what games want, but a laptop then draws more power, runs warmer and spins its fans up sooner. Balanced lets the CPU slow down when it isn't busy.

On a desktop with good cooling, that trade is usually fine. On a laptop, heat and battery come first, and a hot laptop can slow itself down to cool off.

Prefer the command line? powercfg /list shows your plans, and powercfg /setactive with a plan's GUID switches to it (Powercfg command-line options (opens in a new tab)).

Frozen AI (Pro) tries the High Performance plan only while a supported game is in the foreground and your laptop is plugged in. On battery it skips that step. Leave the game or switch Frozen AI off, and everything goes back.