How do I display all power plans in Windows 7 notification area?

By default, only the most recently used plan as well as "balanced" are available. How do I display all 3 default power plans? I'd like to avoid third party programs if possible.

Battery Care installs malware along with it. You can opt out (although not obviously at first glance). I would discourage users from installing software that bundles malware. The author gets barely enough to buy a beer per year from that stuff and it only serves as a distribution point for malware and spyware. It needs to end.

Here's an alternative that doesn't bundle any malware.

Shameless plug: Power Buddy

Power Buddy is a very lightweight system tray application that allows you to switch between all the defined power plans.

No malware. No junk.

Full Disclosure: I am the author of this project.

Windows 7 has no natural settings to show more than 2 power plans in the system tray. However, you can create shortcuts or hotkeys to switch between your power plans. How-to Geek has a nice article about how to do that: Create a Shortcut or Hotkey to Switch Power Plans.

One of the users in a forum having the same question as you says that this solution is perfect; but each time he ran the shortcut, the command prompt popped up for a second. To prevent this he created a small script. You can see the related post here.

There is also a Windows sidebar gadget which can do what you want. It's called Power Scheme and can be downloaded from this page.

Although you avoid 3rd party solutions, there is a tool called Power Plan Assistant for Windows® 7 which can do the job as well.

I would recommend Battery Care, a freeware tool that does more than allowing you to easily change the power plans (Power Saver, Balanced and High Performance) . See this Battery Care review

Just use the shortcut key WIN+X which will bring up the mobility center; then you may choose the power plan you want. very simple!!