I unlocked a hidden 'Final Efficiency' energy plan that was lacking from my Home windows settings
I always thought I had poked around every last corner of Windows, but it turns out my PC was keeping a secret. Like most people, I treated “High Performance” as the final boss of system speed, the setting you flip on to optimize Windows for gaming or heavy creative work and call it a day. What I did not realize is that Microsoft tucked away an even higher tier, initially meant for beefy workstation machines, and then hid it from the regular Windows 10 and 11 menus.