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Get-PowerPlanSetting

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NAME Get-PowerPlanSetting



SYNOPSIS

Retrieve the caption, description, elementname, and instanceId of a specific power setting available on the

computer or all power settings by default.





SYNTAX

Get-PowerPlanSetting [[-Name] <String[]>] [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

Make a call via cim to "root\\cimv2\\power" using the Win32_PowerSetting class to pull the information for a

specific power plan setting.





PARAMETERS

-Name <String[]>

Specify the name of the power setting to retrieve information about.



Required? false

Position? 1

Default value

Accept pipeline input? false

Accept wildcard characters? false



<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



INPUTS



OUTPUTS



NOTES





NAME : Get-PowerPlanSetting

AUTHOR : BMO

EMAIL : brandonseahorse@gmail.com

GITHUB : github.com/Bmo1992

CREATED : September 17, 2019



-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Get-PowerPlanSetting -Name "Low battery action". By default all power plan settings will output to stdout.



Retrieves all information about the power setting named low battery action. Output should look like below:

Caption :

Description : Specify the action that your computer takes when battery capacity reaches the low level.

ElementName : Low battery action

InstanceID : Microsoft:PowerSetting\\{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}

PSComputerName :









-------------------------- EXAMPLE 2 --------------------------



PS C:\\>Get-PowerPlanSetting



Retrieves all information about all the power settings available on the computer in question.











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