Re: UPS and Power Option Properties

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From: Jerold Schulman (Jerry_at_jsiinc.com)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 09:09:37 -0400

On Mon, 31 May 2004 14:25:51 -0400, Bob <Bob> wrote:

>I've finally broke down a bought a real UPS with AVR. I live in an area
>with the worst electrical service I've ever experienced: brown-outs,
>outages, power surges (a power surge recently killed my washing
>machine). I'm surprised my computers have lived this long. I unplug
>them when there's a storm in the area.
>
>Here's the problem: I installed the APC Powerchute utility and when I go
>into Power Option Properties, everything looks just peachy. The pop-up
>box for for "Setting for Home/Office desk power scheme" shows two
>columns of data, "When computer is: Plugged in" and "Running on
>batteries". I also get the "Alarm tab".
>
>When I reboot, this disappears and I'm back to the regular "Power Option
> Properties" (no power scheme for batteries). If I uninstall and
>reinstall the APC Powerchute utilities, I get the correct "Power Option
>Properties" (until I reboot).
>
>What's going on here?

Did you have Administrative privs when you installed and when you use Power
Options?

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

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