Re: Power management
- From: "Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:23:50 -0500
You're welcome. Glad to hear that fixed the problem.
Nepatsfan
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Crazy AL <CrazyAL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You've just become my new best friend. I followed your
instructions to the letter and as you predicted, there was
about 21 reg entries, 12 of them being invalid. (9 - 20) and
3 missing entries (6 - 8). I deleted everything above 5 and
what do ya know? All went back to normal!!!
Thanks a billion dude! Good work!
Crazy AL
"Nepatsfan" wrote:
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Crazy AL <CrazyAL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a Compaq Presario 2305CA (2000 series) laptop with
Win XP sp2.
All updates are up to date, scanned with anti-virus, on pc
and online scanner and no viruses. No Spyware. I scanned
for all and system is clean.
The problem:
----------------
When I go into power management (in display options) there
are only 2 power management schemes in the list. Used to
be about 6. Also, any power schemes I create are never
kept once I close the display settings panel. They were
there up to about 3 days ago from this post.
I called Compaq and all they could find to suggest is to do
a system recovery which their version of reinstalling
Windows! That's the same as telling someone to buy a new
car because a service garage can't perform an oil change!
I'm thoroughly disgusted by MS redistributors who fail to
assume responsability for the distribution of their
product.
Anyhow, I tried creating a new windows profile and the new
profile showed everything intact as well as tests I
performed. They all came out succesfull. This would mean
that my orignal profile with the problem has a corrupted
registry in relation to the power management options.
I'm not MSCE and I may be way off base, but it sounds like
something that requires a reg fix.
Can anyone help me PLEASE???
Crazy AL
I ran into the same problem recently. From what I could
gather one of the power schemes I had created was the cause
of this problem. Here's what I did to fix it.
The power schemes are stored in this registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies
Normally, within this key there are the 6 default schemes
contained in subkeys numbered from 0 to 5. I had extra
subkeys numbered from 6 to 10.
To fix the problem I first backed up the entire
PowerPolicies key by right clicking on it in the left hand
pane and selecting Export from the menu. I saved the .reg
file on the desktop. I then deleted subkeys 6 through 10.
That fixed the problem.
An alternative approach would be to export the entire
PowerCfg key, delete it and apply this registry fix:
Courtesy of Kelly Theriot, MS-MVP
Line 204, right hand column, Restore Power
Schemes/Configuration
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Good luck
Nepatsfan
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