You can see Link State Power Management in the Power Options of your system’s Control Panel. It is a part of PCI Express and works with Active State Power Management (ASPM) in a synchronous manner. It has three modes, Off, Moderate power savings, and Maximum power savings.

If you select Off, there will be no saving of power and current will flow all the time.If you select Moderate power savings, power saving will be less, but the time for the computer to wake will be high.If you select Maximum power savings, power saving will be high, but the time for the computer to wake will be low.

While configuring the feature in question, you need to choose accordingly. You can also choose different modes for different states, i.e; Plugged and unplugged.

It depends on your need. If always use your computer plugged in, then there you should disable the feature to get the maximum latency. However, to save battery, you should not disable it. You can also find a middle ground, i.e; turn the feature off when you are plugged in and enable it when you are on battery. Sometimes the difference in the battery consumption can be drastic, whereas, in some cases, it can be minute. We have mentioned the steps to do the same hereinafter.

To turn Link State Power Management On or Off in Windows 11, use the following method. If you don’t which one to choose, check out the description of Link State Power Management above. Read Next:

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