Power, startup and performance repairs

Every card below runs the same way. The first two steps are the same for all of them; the other two are under each card, with what that card changes.

Every repair card writes back the Windows default unconditionally; it does not depend on a backup of w0a's own existing. So it also helps if some other tool was what changed your machine.

What to do

1. Open w0a
2. Go to the Fix page in the left menu

Power plan and battery

If the screen never turns off, the PC never sleeps or the battery drains fast, activates Balanced, deletes plans this app created, and restores power-saving settings to Windows defaults.

3. Type guc into the search box
4. Press the button on the Power plan and battery card

Missing power plans

If Windows' own Balanced plan is missing from the list — which is why the 'Power plan and battery' card reports success and changes nothing — rebuilds the built-in plans with powercfg. That also deletes plans you or your vendor created, so it asks first.

3. Type dengeli into the search box
4. Press the button on the Missing power plans card

Processor power settings

If the PC still idles hot, the fans never settle or the battery drains fast even after the power-plan repair, returns the core-parking and minimum/maximum processor state values written into Windows' own plans to that plan's own defaults.

3. Type islemci into the search box
4. Press the button on the Processor power settings card

Slow app launches

If apps and boot got noticeably slower, restores Prefetch/SysMain memory preloading to the Windows default (enabled).

3. Type yavas into the search box
4. Press the button on the Slow app launches card

Fast startup

If the PC boots much slower after a shutdown, restores fast startup and hibernation to the Windows default (enabled).

3. Type hizli into the search box
4. Press the button on the Fast startup card

Startup program delay

If every startup program (Steam, Discord, cloud sync) launches at once right after sign-in and the desktop and tray icons arrive late, restores Windows' behaviour of holding startup items back until the shell is ready.

3. Type baslangic into the search box
4. Press the button on the Startup program delay card

Shutdown behaviour

If apps get force-closed at shutdown without the unsaved-work warning, restores shutdown timeouts and prompts to Windows defaults.

3. Type kapatma into the search box
4. Press the button on the Shutdown behaviour card

Crash reporting and legacy apps

If an old program keeps crashing, compatibility help no longer appears for installers, or crash reports vanished, restores the related Windows protections to their defaults (on).

3. Type cokme into the search box
4. Press the button on the Crash reporting and legacy apps card

Memory and system defaults

If RAM usage went up, services group strangely in Task Manager, or background jobs crawl, restores memory and scheduler settings to Windows defaults.

3. Type ram into the search box
4. Press the button on the Memory and system defaults card

SSD TRIM

If the SSD slowed down over time or another tool turned TRIM off, restores TRIM to the Windows default (enabled).

3. Type ssd into the search box
4. Press the button on the SSD TRIM card

System Restore

If restore points can no longer be created, or the Configure button in System Protection does nothing, removes the restore policies and returns the shadow-copy services and scheduled task to their Windows defaults.

3. Type sistem into the search box
4. Press the button on the System Restore card

What the card's answer means

After you press it, the card writes a line underneath. Which line you get decides your next step.

• "Fixed — N setting(s) put back to the Windows default." — this was the broken thing and it has been put back. If the problem continues, see below.
• "Nothing to fix — this was already at the Windows default." — these settings were never changed. Whatever you are seeing has another cause, and pressing this card again will not help.
• "Nothing to fix — this component is not installed on this PC." — the thing this card repairs is not present on this Windows. Your edition may not include it, or it may have been removed earlier.
• "Fixed — N setting(s) restored. Restart the PC for full effect." — the setting is written, but Windows reads it at boot, so the difference shows after a restart. A card only prints this when what it changed genuinely needs one.
• "Fixed — N setting(s) restored. Sign out and back in for full effect." — the cheaper version of the same thing: what reads the setting is the session, so the machine does not have to go down.
• "Another repair is running." — only one card runs at a time, because several of them would undo each other's work. Wait for it to finish and press again.
• "Could not fix — see the error log." — the card did not finish. The reason is in %LocalAppData%\w0a\errors.log.

If it did not help

If the card said it fixed something and the problem is still there, these settings were not the cause. Write to us — tell us which card you ran and what it printed; the two together are what narrows it down.