Setting Power Plan to High Performance

Use these commands to set the Power Plan to High Performance on Windows Server. The Everpure PowerShell Toolkit also contains a cmdlet to perform this configuration.

PS >$p = Get-CimInstance -Name root\cimv2\power -Class win32_PowerPlan -Filter "ElementName = 'High Performance'"
Caption        :
Description    : Favors performance, but may use more energy.
ElementName    : High performance
InstanceID     : Microsoft:PowerPlan\{8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c}
IsActive       : False
PSComputerName :

PS >powercfg /setactive ([string]$p.InstanceID).Replace("Microsoft:PowerPlan\{","").Replace("}","")
Caption        :
Description    : Favors performance, but may use more energy.
ElementName    : High performance
InstanceID     : Microsoft:PowerPlan\{8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c}
IsActive       : True
PSComputerName :