Martyn said:
Hi guys and gals
When trying to set up screen/power saving I can no longer see any Power
schemes .
It is blank it just a blue bar used to have Home. Office.settings
Consequently I cannot set drives to go off or PC to go to standby in order
to save power.
The PC is a Dell 2400 XP pro fully updated with SP3 and all later updates.
Any clues will be most welcome
Thanks
Martyn
Before attempting the following procedure you might want to go
to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools ->
System Restore and create a restore point. See the "Create
Restore Points Manually" section of this article for more info.
Windows XP System Restore Is Easy to Use
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ballew_03may19.mspx
Once you've created a restore point you can move on to editing
your system's registry to see if it fixes your problem.
Go to Start -> Run and enter regedit.exe in the Open box.
Click OK.
In the right hand pane, click on the + signs to navigate to
this registry key.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies
There should be 6 subkeys under this key numbered 0 through 5.
Those represent the 6 default power schemes that were present
when Windows XP was installed.
You want to leave these subkeys alone right now.
Right click on any subkeys that are numbered greater than 5.
Select Delete from the menu.
Do the same for this registry key.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls
Folder\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies
Close the registry editor when you've deleted all the extra
power schemes.
Go back to Control Panel and check in Power Options to see if
you have restored the default schemes.
If you've deleted all the extra schemes and you still don't
have the default power schemes download and run the registry
fix available here;
Line 204, right hand column, Restore Power Schemes/Configuration
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
Good luck
Nepatsfan
