A lightweight Windows 11 & 10 system tray application for switching power plans instantly.
Power Mode Selector sits quietly in your Windows system tray and lets you switch between all your power plans with just two clicks — no digging through Control Panel required.
Features:
- Automatically detects all installed power plans (no hardcoded GUIDs)
- Color-coded tray icon changes based on the active plan
- Optional startup with Windows via Task Scheduler
- Supports Turkish and English Windows installations
- Lightweight (~15 MB), no installation required
- Windows 10 or Windows 11
- No additional software required (standalone EXE)
- Download
PowerModeSelector.exefrom the Releases page. - Run the EXE — a tray icon will appear in the bottom-right corner.
- Right-click the tray icon to see your power plans.
- Click any plan to switch to it instantly.
To enable automatic startup with Windows:
- Right-click the tray icon
- Click "Run at startup"
- Accept the UAC prompt (administrator permission required for Task Scheduler)
Requirements:
pip install pystray pillow pyinstaller
Build command:
python -m PyInstaller --onefile --noconsole --icon="ICON.ico" ^
--hidden-import=pystray._win32 ^
--hidden-import=PIL --hidden-import=PIL.Image --hidden-import=PIL.ImageDraw ^
--exclude-module=tkinter --exclude-module=numpy --exclude-module=pandas ^
--name "PowerModeSelector" power_mode_selector.py
Some antivirus software may flag this application as suspicious because it interacts with Windows Task Scheduler to enable startup functionality. This is a false positive. The application does not modify system files, collect data, or communicate over the network.
The full source code is available here for review.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
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