Windows 11 Build 26252 will give you greater control over performance for power profiles | Laptop News

Microsoft released build 26252 to the Windows 11 Canary channel yesterday. Like always, there are a few feature additions to the OS, along with a hidden Power setting improvement. This new setting clearly displays the power mode preference for both plugged-in/battery scenarios.

PhantomOcean3 discovered this new Power mode setting hidden inside build 26252. Microsoft is keeping this hidden for now and might enable it in future Insider builds. But we enabled the setting using the Vivetool to check if it’s working.

Clicking on the Power mode option in the Settings app opens a drop-down menu. Here, you’ll find two options: Plugged in and On battery. Since we tested it on a virtual machine, we only got the Plugged in option in the drop-down menu.

So, you can easily check the assigned power mode for each scenario and change it from the Settings app. In Windows 23H2, there is no such option in the Power settings section. You can only see the current mode.

When this change ships with the 24H2 update, you’ll have better clarity about the mode your PC is currently using. Note that Windows 11 already remembers the Power mode assigned to each profile but doesn’t show it clearly.

Apart from this hidden change, let’s discuss the feature additions to this Canary build.

Pin apps from the Start Menu to the Desktop and Taskbar

You can now easily pin apps from the Start Menu to the Taskbar or the Desktop. In 23H2, when you try dragging a pinned app from the Start Menu to any of these two locations, it displays a block icon. But in this build, it is possible to do so.

New energy recommendation

If you use Energy recommendations on Windows 11, you’ll spot a new “Turn off HDR to conserve energy” option in the settings. Obviously, this…