Hibernation disappears from "Power Options"

M

Michel Merlin

My current laptop has Windows XP Pro US. As on my other PCs (all
with W2KSP4 US or FR, or previously with W98SE US), I set it up
so that pressing the Power On/Off button, or pressing the Sleep
button, or closing the lid, makes the PC hibernate.

Unfortunately on my WXP Pro laptop, I often find it in Stand By,
and opening "Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options"
shows no more "Hibernation":

- in "Power Schemes > Settings for Merlin power scheme",
in the 2 columns ("Plugged in" and "Running on batteries"),
I have only 3 lines:
"Turn off monitor", "Turn off hard disks", "System standby";
- in "Advanced > Power buttons", I now have "Stand by" in the 3
lines (lid, power button, sleep button), instead of my
previous "Hibernate" setting. I still have "Hibernate" in the
3 drop-down lists, but if I select them, click "Apply" and
quit, then come back, I see they have been at once replaced
with "Stand by".
- in "RegEdit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\
PowerPolicies", I have again 2 keys named "17", "18",
but deleting them doesn't bring Hibernation back.

Anyone can help? TIA,

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200


----- Previous Message -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 15:32:15 +0100 (14:32:15 GMT)
Subject: Lost "Power Options": remove wrong Values in
"PowerPolicies" Registry Key (Thanks Jon!)

Thanks Jon! Right on the spot! Yes this is the solution I used
too, and it worked at once (I make a visible title for others
eventually in the same boat, and I develop for them - knowing
the time that may be wasted looking for this!).

It seems Windows does 3 questionable things in that affair:

1) when parsing the Registry Key you recall
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies),
Windows apparently stops parsing as soon as it hits an
incomplete Value; namely, a Value without a name.

2) This parsing is done by sorting the Values by their
*numbers*, but *alphabetically* instead of numerically -
which builds the following order:
0, 1, 10, 11, 12, ..., 2, 21, 22, ...
(BTW this mistake, out of casualness, is frequent - and most
often IMO loses more time on the reader's side than it saves on
the writer's one).

3) It happens (probably due to another mistake in Windows code)
that the new profiles you enter, when converted into "Values" to
be stored in the said Registry Key, have no more name.

The result is: as you add new Values that all are losing their
names, as soon as one of them reaches the "10" number, it gets
sorted between "1" and "2"; then it causes all the main Values
(0, 1, 2, 3, .., 8, 9) to be ignored, unless the 0 ("Home/Office
Desk") and 1 ("Portable/Laptop").

Then doing exactly as you said (exporting or deleting all the
Values missing a name), does immediately retrieve all your
profiles - which then were hidden, not lost.
Thanks again Jon!

Paris, Thu 23 Mar 2006 15:32:15 +0100


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Jon" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:52:59 -0000 (Paris 12:52:59 +0100)
Subject: Re: Can't save new profiles in "Power Options"

You could try this....

start > run > regedit

Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

Export the key, as a backup, in case you want to restore it.

Look at the various key listed there eg 10, 11, 12 and see what
comes up in the "Name" value in the right pane for each one. See
if any of the keys have no "Name" value key, or a blank one,
or any other strange anomalies, in the right pane and try
exporting/ deleting those.

Try and keep the keys with values 0,1,2,3,4,5 as they're the
default ones.

Then check in Power Options to see if your profiles are now
visible.

Jon


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:09:30 +0100
Subject: Can't save new profiles in "Power Options"

In a newly installed Windows XP Pro, I go to

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options >
Power Schemes,

and I try to save new profiles in the "Power schemes" box
(yes, the path really is "Start > Settings > Control Panel >
Power Options > Power Schemes > Power schemes", with
the uppercase/lowercase "s" being the only difference
between the last 2 stages).

Unfortunately after carefully tuning my profile, I "Save As" it
under a new name (say "Merlin")... only to discover, next time I
come back to Power Options > Power Schemes, that it has
disappeared. The only 3 profiles that remain are the 2 original
ones, "Home/Office Desk" and "Portable/Laptop", and the one I
could save at the very beginning, before they start to
disappear, "Battery Drain" (that I created to help training my
battery).

I tried several different ways:

- 1st changing the settings, 2nd applying, 3rd "Save As" as
"Merlin";
- 1st "Save As" the current profile as "Merlin", 2nd changing
it, 3rd Apply, 4th "OK";
- and so on.

Some ways seem to work but when I come back the new profile has
disappeared (and another one has been selected against my will).

I remember that I had alreay that problem a few years ago
in W2K, and that I searched with no success for weeks
before stumbling on the solution y accident; this is why
all my other PCs (W98SE, W2K, WXPH) have their 6 or 7 profiles
OK. But I can't remember that solution... Thanks for any help,

Paris, Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:09:30 +0100
 
M

Michel Merlin

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Here is, in chrono order, what I did and happened:

1) Before your kind reply I had restarted the laptop, which had
brought back Hibernation, but all Hibernation-related settings
have to be reset. Not too annoying by itself, however this is
still another little annoyance that, added to the myriads ones
Windows adds along the year without curing any more the older
ones, finally turns the normally light task of maintaining a PC
in order to work, into a full-time job (Just see around and
guess, which percent of their times most visitors of this NG are
spending in IT and PCs, and which in music, poetry, structural
analysis, or else?).

So I would like (if ever possible) to know how to make this new
little annoyance *NEVER* comes back. Thanks to anyone who would
know how.

2) I came back on the NG and found your quick and kind reply.
From the context (I didn't change my graphic driver since I got
this laptop in Feb 2006, yet this particular issue never
happened before today) I think the problem doesn't come from the
graphic driver. However you are right, better updating, to at
least put that possibility behind me. So this is what I did and
saw:

a) "Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools >
Computer Management > System Tools > Device Manager > Display
adapters > Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset >
Driver" shows:
"Driver Date: Thu 23 Mar 06", "Driver Version: 6.14.10.4384"

b) Latest driver:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Mobile+Intel(R)+915GM/GMS,910GML+Express+Chipset
Chipset:
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915gm/index.htm
Graphics:
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma900/index.htm
Driver (says the latest is 6.14.20.0.4543):
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel915gm/
Release Note:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/10303/ENG/relnotes.htm

c) Downloaded Intel_915GM_win2k_xp1420.exe (5,285,707 Bytes),
double-clicked it and followed until required reboot. Pressed
the Power button, which hibernated. Pressed again, which
dehibernated - but the (blue Windows) screen was frozen, with
even the (white) cursor frozen, and nothing working, even not
Ctrl+Alt+Del. Hold Power pressed down until Shut Down (4 sec).

Restarted, retried: this time, screen was frozen same way
(cursor frozen) but even before Windows (screen black, cursor
white). Shut Down, Restart.

System Restore to 3 hours before driver update. Driver is back
to 6.14.10.4384, but Dehibernating still freezes in black (2
tries).

Undid System Restore. But the new issue (freeze on
Dehibernating) is still there, and Device Manager now shows
6.14.10.4543, i.e. neither exactly the old driver (6.14.10.4384)
nor exactly the new (6.14.20.0.4543).

Uninstalled Intel Graphic Driver (from Control Panel >
Add/Remove Programs), Restart as required, reinstalled the new
driver (double-clicked Intel_915GM_win2k_xp1420.exe), but still
freeze on Dehibernating, and still 6.14.10.4543.

Once again I have lost a lot of time on Microsoft/Intel
programs, "support", help from "volunteers", doing what they
required or suggested, probably with (much) more care than they
put in their own work in the 1st place - and the only result and
reward I got is just another annoyance (Hibernation unusable).

So I would like (if ever possible) to know how to make these TWO
new little annoyances *NEVER* come back:

1. Hibernation disappears.
2. Dehibernation freezes the PC.

Thanks to anyone who would know how.

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 22:52:10 +0200


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Wesley Vogel" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 11:14:22 -0600 (17:14:22 GMT)
Subject: Re: Hibernation disappears from "Power Options"

Update your Video drivers.

So you've lost (or never had) Standby and/or Hibernate?
http://www.rickrogers.org/standby.htm

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200 (17:06:45 GMT)
Subject: Hibernation disappears from "Power Options"

My current laptop has Windows XP Pro US. As on my other PCs (all
with W2KSP4 US or FR, or previously with W98SE US), I set it up
so that pressing the Power On/Off button, or pressing the Sleep
button, or closing the lid, makes the PC hibernate.

Unfortunately on my WXP Pro laptop, I often find it in Stand By,
and opening "Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options"
shows no more "Hibernation":

- in "Power Schemes > Settings for Merlin power scheme",
in the 2 columns ("Plugged in" and "Running on batteries"),
I have only 3 lines:
"Turn off monitor", "Turn off hard disks", "System standby";
- in "Advanced > Power buttons", I now have "Stand by" in the 3
lines (lid, power button, sleep button), instead of my
previous "Hibernate" setting. I still have "Hibernate" in the
3 drop-down lists, but if I select them, click "Apply" and
quit, then come back, I see they have been at once replaced
with "Stand by".
- in "RegEdit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\
PowerPolicies", I have again 2 keys named "17", "18",
but deleting them doesn't bring Hibernation back.

Anyone can help? TIA,

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200


----- Previous Message -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 15:32:15 +0100 (14:32:15 GMT)
Subject: Lost "Power Options": remove wrong Values in
"PowerPolicies" Registry Key (Thanks Jon!)

Thanks Jon! Right on the spot! Yes this is the solution I used
too, and it worked at once (I make a visible title for others
eventually in the same boat, and I develop for them - knowing
the time that may be wasted looking for this!).

It seems Windows does 3 questionable things in that affair:

1) when parsing the Registry Key you recall
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies),
Windows apparently stops parsing as soon as it hits an
incomplete Value; namely, a Value without a name.

2) This parsing is done by sorting the Values by their
*numbers*, but *alphabetically* instead of numerically -
which builds the following order:
0, 1, 10, 11, 12, ..., 2, 21, 22, ...
(BTW this mistake, out of casualness, is frequent - and most
often IMO loses more time on the reader's side than it saves on
the writer's one).

3) It happens (probably due to another mistake in Windows code)
that the new profiles you enter, when converted into "Values" to
be stored in the said Registry Key, have no more name.

The result is: as you add new Values that all are losing their
names, as soon as one of them reaches the "10" number, it gets
sorted between "1" and "2"; then it causes all the main Values
(0, 1, 2, 3, .., 8, 9) to be ignored, unless the 0 ("Home/Office
Desk") and 1 ("Portable/Laptop").

Then doing exactly as you said (exporting or deleting all the
Values missing a name), does immediately retrieve all your
profiles - which then were hidden, not lost.
Thanks again Jon!

Paris, Thu 23 Mar 2006 15:32:15 +0100


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Jon" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:52:59 -0000 (Paris 12:52:59 +0100)
Subject: Re: Can't save new profiles in "Power Options"

You could try this....

start > run > regedit

Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

Export the key, as a backup, in case you want to restore it.

Look at the various key listed there eg 10, 11, 12 and see what
comes up in the "Name" value in the right pane for each one. See
if any of the keys have no "Name" value key, or a blank one,
or any other strange anomalies, in the right pane and try
exporting/ deleting those.

Try and keep the keys with values 0,1,2,3,4,5 as they're the
default ones.

Then check in Power Options to see if your profiles are now
visible.

Jon


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:09:30 +0100
Subject: Can't save new profiles in "Power Options"

In a newly installed Windows XP Pro, I go to

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options >
Power Schemes,

and I try to save new profiles in the "Power schemes" box
(yes, the path really is "Start > Settings > Control Panel >
Power Options > Power Schemes > Power schemes", with
the uppercase/lowercase "s" being the only difference
between the last 2 stages).

Unfortunately after carefully tuning my profile, I "Save As" it
under a new name (say "Merlin")... only to discover, next time I
come back to Power Options > Power Schemes, that it has
disappeared. The only 3 profiles that remain are the 2 original
ones, "Home/Office Desk" and "Portable/Laptop", and the one I
could save at the very beginning, before they start to
disappear, "Battery Drain" (that I created to help training my
battery).

I tried several different ways:

- 1st changing the settings, 2nd applying, 3rd "Save As" as
"Merlin";
- 1st "Save As" the current profile as "Merlin", 2nd changing
it, 3rd Apply, 4th "OK";
- and so on.

Some ways seem to work but when I come back the new profile has
disappeared (and another one has been selected against my will).

I remember that I had alreay that problem a few years ago
in W2K, and that I searched with no success for weeks
before stumbling on the solution y accident; this is why
all my other PCs (W98SE, W2K, WXPH) have their 6 or 7 profiles
OK. But I can't remember that solution... Thanks for any help,

Paris, Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:09:30 +0100
 
M

Michel Merlin

WORKAROUNDED - all is in order now -
but real solutions remain to be found.

The only changes I did are:

1) since the flaws made restarting very frequent, and my laptop
doesn't really need protection (contains nothing secret, and is
used by none else), I tried to remove the requirement for a PWD
at start. So I went into "Start > Settings > Control Panel >
Users Accounts > Change the way users log on or off", which in
my case only returns greyed options, and a windowlet saying "A
recently installed program has disabled the Welcome screen and
Fast User Switching.... The following file name might help...:
IWPDGINA.DLL", but this file is not found in C:\.

2) I hibernated once through "Start > Shut Down > Hibernate"
instead of the Power button.

I don't know if one of these changes is part of what brought the
issue back to normal (they shouldn't, but go figure...), however
anyway now:

- In "Power Options" I have all my profiles;
- Hibernation is available everywhere it should,
- Hibernation is working, both through "Start" or the "Power"
button.

Thanks anyway to Wesley Vogel who came to help.

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 23:56:15 +0200


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/uJHUKO%[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 22:52:10 +0200
Subject: "Restart" brings back "Hibernation", but
how to avoid this?

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Here is, in chrono order, what I did and happened:

1) Before your kind reply I had restarted the laptop, which had
brought back Hibernation, but all Hibernation-related settings
have to be reset. Not too annoying by itself, however this is
still another little annoyance that, added to the myriads ones
Windows adds along the year without curing any more the older
ones, finally turns the normally light task of maintaining a PC
in order to work, into a full-time job (Just see around and
guess, which percent of their times most visitors of this NG are
spending in IT and PCs, and which in music, poetry, structural
analysis, or else?).

So I would like (if ever possible) to know how to make this new
little annoyance *NEVER* comes back. Thanks to anyone who would
know how.

2) I came back on the NG and found your quick and kind reply.
From the context (I didn't change my graphic driver since I got
this laptop in Feb 2006, yet this particular issue never
happened before today) I think the problem doesn't come from the
graphic driver. However you are right, better updating, to at
least put that possibility behind me. So this is what I did and
saw:

a) "Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools >
Computer Management > System Tools > Device Manager > Display
adapters > Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset >
Driver" shows:
"Driver Date: Thu 23 Mar 06", "Driver Version: 6.14.10.4384"

b) Latest driver:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Mobile+Intel(R)+915GM/GMS,910GML+Express+Chipset
Chipset:
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915gm/index.htm
Graphics:
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma900/index.htm
Driver (says the latest is 6.14.20.0.4543):
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel915gm/
Release Note:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/10303/ENG/relnotes.htm

c) Downloaded Intel_915GM_win2k_xp1420.exe (5,285,707 Bytes),
double-clicked it and followed until required reboot. Pressed
the Power button, which hibernated. Pressed again, which
dehibernated - but the (blue Windows) screen was frozen, with
even the (white) cursor frozen, and nothing working, even not
Ctrl+Alt+Del. Hold Power pressed down until Shut Down (4 sec).

Restarted, retried: this time, screen was frozen same way
(cursor frozen) but even before Windows (screen black, cursor
white). Shut Down, Restart.

System Restore to 3 hours before driver update. Driver is back
to 6.14.10.4384, but Dehibernating still freezes in black (2
tries).

Undid System Restore. But the new issue (freeze on
Dehibernating) is still there, and Device Manager now shows
6.14.10.4543, i.e. neither exactly the old driver (6.14.10.4384)
nor exactly the new (6.14.20.0.4543).

Uninstalled Intel Graphic Driver (from Control Panel >
Add/Remove Programs), Restart as required, reinstalled the new
driver (double-clicked Intel_915GM_win2k_xp1420.exe), but still
freeze on Dehibernating, and still 6.14.10.4543.

Once again I have lost a lot of time on Microsoft/Intel
programs, "support", help from "volunteers", doing what they
required or suggested, probably with (much) more care than they
put in their own work in the 1st place - and the only result and
reward I got is just another annoyance (Hibernation unusable).

So I would like (if ever possible) to know how to make these TWO
new little annoyances *NEVER* come back:

1. Hibernation disappears.
2. Dehibernation freezes the PC.

Thanks to anyone who would know how.

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 22:52:10 +0200


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Wesley Vogel" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 11:14:22 -0600 (17:14:22 GMT)
Subject: Re: Hibernation disappears from "Power Options"

Update your Video drivers.

So you've lost (or never had) Standby and/or Hibernate?
http://www.rickrogers.org/standby.htm

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200 (17:06:45 GMT)
Subject: Hibernation disappears from "Power Options"

My current laptop has Windows XP Pro US. As on my other PCs (all
with W2KSP4 US or FR, or previously with W98SE US), I set it up
so that pressing the Power On/Off button, or pressing the Sleep
button, or closing the lid, makes the PC hibernate.

Unfortunately on my WXP Pro laptop, I often find it in Stand By,
and opening "Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options"
shows no more "Hibernation":

- in "Power Schemes > Settings for Merlin power scheme",
in the 2 columns ("Plugged in" and "Running on batteries"),
I have only 3 lines:
"Turn off monitor", "Turn off hard disks", "System standby";
- in "Advanced > Power buttons", I now have "Stand by" in the 3
lines (lid, power button, sleep button), instead of my
previous "Hibernate" setting. I still have "Hibernate" in the
3 drop-down lists, but if I select them, click "Apply" and
quit, then come back, I see they have been at once replaced
with "Stand by".
- in "RegEdit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\
PowerPolicies", I have again 2 keys named "17", "18",
but deleting them doesn't bring Hibernation back.

Anyone can help? TIA,

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200


----- Previous Message -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 15:32:15 +0100 (14:32:15 GMT)
Subject: Lost "Power Options": remove wrong Values in
"PowerPolicies" Registry Key (Thanks Jon!)

Thanks Jon! Right on the spot! Yes this is the solution I used
too, and it worked at once (I make a visible title for others
eventually in the same boat, and I develop for them - knowing
the time that may be wasted looking for this!).

It seems Windows does 3 questionable things in that affair:

1) when parsing the Registry Key you recall
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies),
Windows apparently stops parsing as soon as it hits an
incomplete Value; namely, a Value without a name.

2) This parsing is done by sorting the Values by their
*numbers*, but *alphabetically* instead of numerically -
which builds the following order:
0, 1, 10, 11, 12, ..., 2, 21, 22, ...
(BTW this mistake, out of casualness, is frequent - and most
often IMO loses more time on the reader's side than it saves on
the writer's one).

3) It happens (probably due to another mistake in Windows code)
that the new profiles you enter, when converted into "Values" to
be stored in the said Registry Key, have no more name.

The result is: as you add new Values that all are losing their
names, as soon as one of them reaches the "10" number, it gets
sorted between "1" and "2"; then it causes all the main Values
(0, 1, 2, 3, .., 8, 9) to be ignored, unless the 0 ("Home/Office
Desk") and 1 ("Portable/Laptop").

Then doing exactly as you said (exporting or deleting all the
Values missing a name), does immediately retrieve all your
profiles - which then were hidden, not lost.
Thanks again Jon!

Paris, Thu 23 Mar 2006 15:32:15 +0100


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Jon" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:52:59 -0000 (Paris 12:52:59 +0100)
Subject: Re: Can't save new profiles in "Power Options"

You could try this....

start > run > regedit

Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

Export the key, as a backup, in case you want to restore it.

Look at the various key listed there eg 10, 11, 12 and see what
comes up in the "Name" value in the right pane for each one. See
if any of the keys have no "Name" value key, or a blank one,
or any other strange anomalies, in the right pane and try
exporting/ deleting those.

Try and keep the keys with values 0,1,2,3,4,5 as they're the
default ones.

Then check in Power Options to see if your profiles are now
visible.

Jon


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:09:30 +0100
Subject: Can't save new profiles in "Power Options"

In a newly installed Windows XP Pro, I go to

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options >
Power Schemes,

and I try to save new profiles in the "Power schemes" box
(yes, the path really is "Start > Settings > Control Panel >
Power Options > Power Schemes > Power schemes", with
the uppercase/lowercase "s" being the only difference
between the last 2 stages).

Unfortunately after carefully tuning my profile, I "Save As" it
under a new name (say "Merlin")... only to discover, next time I
come back to Power Options > Power Schemes, that it has
disappeared. The only 3 profiles that remain are the 2 original
ones, "Home/Office Desk" and "Portable/Laptop", and the one I
could save at the very beginning, before they start to
disappear, "Battery Drain" (that I created to help training my
battery).

I tried several different ways:

- 1st changing the settings, 2nd applying, 3rd "Save As" as
"Merlin";
- 1st "Save As" the current profile as "Merlin", 2nd changing
it, 3rd Apply, 4th "OK";
- and so on.

Some ways seem to work but when I come back the new profile has
disappeared (and another one has been selected against my will).

I remember that I had alreay that problem a few years ago
in W2K, and that I searched with no success for weeks
before stumbling on the solution y accident; this is why
all my other PCs (W98SE, W2K, WXPH) have their 6 or 7 profiles
OK. But I can't remember that solution... Thanks for any help,

Paris, Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:09:30 +0100
 
M

Michel Merlin

The flaw soon came again. However this time it helped me narrow
the circumstances where it comes:

- yesterday night the laptop was as usual set to hibernate after
30 minutes idle;
- this morning I found it apparently hibernated as due, with
everything turned off (screen black, etc) but with the Power
button still lit in blue (which is abnormal); and when I
pressed that Power button, the PC remained frozen.

So I did many different tries and tests, and remembered and
found that the 2nd flaw above (PC getting frozen when
dehibernating) consistently comes when *TWO* (external) USB
modems are connected, and consistently *DOESN'T* come when
*ONLY ONE* USB modem is pluggged. I report this, hoping that
despite the way MS NGs have turned since ~1999, this
could help some positive soul (I refuse to admit there are no
more here) could duly forward this question with enough
insistence to MS developers to get them really fix it in a
reasonable delay. To help this I report the details of my case:

- laptop is Uniwill 223ei0,
http://www.google.com/search?q=Uniwill+223ei0 ,
http://www.uniwill.com/products/mobility/223ei0/223ei0.php ,
bought from Wolfgang Wuesten,
http://www.ww-mmm.de/xtcommerce/product_info.php?products_id=99
(now "Product not found!"), Sonoma, Pentium M760 (2.0GHz),
2GB, 915GM with gma900, SmartLink 56K Voice Modem (that
stopped working after a few weeks and never recovered despite
extensive research, see "Error 633, (Internal) modem in use,
in Windows XP, is incurable",
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=179495&page=3&pp=15#post1376918
and follow links), and unfortunately, no (physical) COM port,
no PC Card PCMCIA slot, and only 2 USB2 slots;
- I usually have 1 slot occupied by an externally-powered 4-port
USB2 hub, and the 2nd slot free for my Digital TV USB key, or
for a regular USB key;
- on the 4-port hub I usually have my mouse
Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 4000 OEM
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/oempartners/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=045
and one of my two external USB modems: a regular one,
USB-powered, "Trust 56K USB Modem MD-1250",
http://www.trust.com/products/product.aspx?artnr=14209 ,
and an "Olitec Self Memory USB V92 Ready" that, designed to
work without a PC (yet actually unable to do so), needs a
power brick.
- Given the respective advantages and flaws of the 2 modems, I
sometimes switch between them; however while I was testing
them I only plugged one at the same time. This period being
passed, at some point yesterday I plugged the 2 modems at the
same time, but didn't think of it when wondering what caused
the freeze, because I had changed other things in the same
time (another small thing that helped me forget this is, when
I unplugged the Olitec, I did it either by actually unplugging
it, or by simply powering it off with its own power button).
- today I did several tests (Hibernating/Resuming through Power
button, or through Start > Shut Down, or by setting Power
Options to Hibernate after 1 minute idle), and repeated them
-- several times with the 2 modems plugged,
-- several times with only the USB-powered Trust
(Olitec still plugged but powered off),
-- several times with only the Olitec
which showed that the freeze consistently occurred with the 2
modems plugged, and never occurred with only 1 of them plugged
or powered on.

Hope this report helps,

Paris, Tue 15 Aug 2006 11:09:35 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 23:56:15 +0200 (21:56:15 GMT)
Subject: WORKAROUNDED - all is in order now - but real solutions remain to be found

WORKAROUNDED - all is in order now -
but real solutions remain to be found.

The only changes I did are:

1) since the flaws made restarting very frequent, and my laptop
doesn't really need protection (contains nothing secret, and is
used by none else), I tried to remove the requirement for a PWD
at start. So I went into "Start > Settings > Control Panel >
Users Accounts > Change the way users log on or off", which in
my case only returns greyed options, and a windowlet saying "A
recently installed program has disabled the Welcome screen and
Fast User Switching.... The following file name might help...:
IWPDGINA.DLL", but this file is not found in C:\.

2) I hibernated once through "Start > Shut Down > Hibernate"
instead of the Power button.

I don't know if one of these changes is part of what brought the
issue back to normal (they shouldn't, but go figure...), however
anyway now:

- In "Power Options" I have all my profiles;
- Hibernation is available everywhere it should,
- Hibernation is working, both through "Start" or the "Power"
button.

Thanks anyway to Wesley Vogel who came to help.

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 23:56:15 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/uJHUKO%[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 22:52:10 +0200 (20:52:10 GMT)
Subject: "Restart" brings back "Hibernation", but
how to avoid this?

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Here is, in chrono order, what I did and happened:

1) Before your kind reply I had restarted the laptop, which had
brought back Hibernation, but all Hibernation-related settings
have to be reset. Not too annoying by itself, however this is
still another little annoyance that, added to the myriads ones
Windows adds along the year without curing any more the older
ones, finally turns the normally light task of maintaining a PC
in order to work, into a full-time job (Just see around and
guess, which percent of their times most visitors of this NG are
spending in IT and PCs, and which in music, poetry, structural
analysis, or else?).

So I would like (if ever possible) to know how to make this new
little annoyance *NEVER* comes back. Thanks to anyone who would
know how.

2) I came back on the NG and found your quick and kind reply.
From the context (I didn't change my graphic driver since I got
this laptop in Feb 2006, yet this particular issue never
happened before today) I think the problem doesn't come from the
graphic driver. However you are right, better updating, to at
least put that possibility behind me. So this is what I did and
saw:

a) "Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools >
Computer Management > System Tools > Device Manager > Display
adapters > Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset >
Driver" shows:
"Driver Date: Thu 23 Mar 06", "Driver Version: 6.14.10.4384"

b) Latest driver:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Mobile+Intel(R)+915GM/GMS,910GML+Express+Chipset
Chipset:
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915gm/index.htm
Graphics:
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma900/index.htm
Driver (says the latest is 6.14.20.0.4543):
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel915gm/
Release Note:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/10303/ENG/relnotes.htm

c) Downloaded Intel_915GM_win2k_xp1420.exe (5,285,707 Bytes),
double-clicked it and followed until required reboot. Pressed
the Power button, which hibernated. Pressed again, which
dehibernated - but the (blue Windows) screen was frozen, with
even the (white) cursor frozen, and nothing working, even not
Ctrl+Alt+Del. Hold Power pressed down until Shut Down (4 sec).

Restarted, retried: this time, screen was frozen same way
(cursor frozen) but even before Windows (screen black, cursor
white). Shut Down, Restart.

System Restore to 3 hours before driver update. Driver is back
to 6.14.10.4384, but Dehibernating still freezes in black (2
tries).

Undid System Restore. But the new issue (freeze on
Dehibernating) is still there, and Device Manager now shows
6.14.10.4543, i.e. neither exactly the old driver (6.14.10.4384)
nor exactly the new (6.14.20.0.4543).

Uninstalled Intel Graphic Driver (from Control Panel >
Add/Remove Programs), Restart as required, reinstalled the new
driver (double-clicked Intel_915GM_win2k_xp1420.exe), but still
freeze on Dehibernating, and still 6.14.10.4543.

Once again I have lost a lot of time on Microsoft/Intel
programs, "support", help from "volunteers", doing what they
required or suggested, probably with (much) more care than they
put in their own work in the 1st place - and the only result and
reward I got is just another annoyance (Hibernation unusable).

So I would like (if ever possible) to know how to make these TWO
new little annoyances *NEVER* come back:

1. Hibernation disappears.
2. Dehibernation freezes the PC.

Thanks to anyone who would know how.

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 22:52:10 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Wesley Vogel" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 11:14:22 -0600 (17:14:22 GMT)
Subject: Re: Hibernation disappears from "Power Options"

Update your Video drivers.

So you've lost (or never had) Standby and/or Hibernate?
http://www.rickrogers.org/standby.htm

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200 (17:06:45 GMT)
Subject: Hibernation disappears from "Power Options"

My current laptop has Windows XP Pro US. As on my other PCs (all
with W2KSP4 US or FR, or previously with W98SE US), I set it up
so that pressing the Power On/Off button, or pressing the Sleep
button, or closing the lid, makes the PC hibernate.

Unfortunately on my WXP Pro laptop, I often find it in Stand By,
and opening "Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options"
shows no more "Hibernation":

- in "Power Schemes > Settings for Merlin power scheme",
in the 2 columns ("Plugged in" and "Running on batteries"),
I have only 3 lines:
"Turn off monitor", "Turn off hard disks", "System standby";
- in "Advanced > Power buttons", I now have "Stand by" in the 3
lines (lid, power button, sleep button), instead of my
previous "Hibernate" setting. I still have "Hibernate" in the
3 drop-down lists, but if I select them, click "Apply" and
quit, then come back, I see they have been at once replaced
with "Stand by".
- in "RegEdit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\
PowerPolicies", I have again 2 keys named "17", "18",
but deleting them doesn't bring Hibernation back.

Anyone can help? TIA,

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200


----- Previous Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 15:32:15 +0100 (14:32:15 GMT)
Subject: Lost "Power Options": remove wrong Values in
"PowerPolicies" Registry Key (Thanks Jon!)

Thanks Jon! Right on the spot! Yes this is the solution I used
too, and it worked at once (I make a visible title for others
eventually in the same boat, and I develop for them - knowing
the time that may be wasted looking for this!).

It seems Windows does 3 questionable things in that affair:

1) when parsing the Registry Key you recall
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies),
Windows apparently stops parsing as soon as it hits an
incomplete Value; namely, a Value without a name.

2) This parsing is done by sorting the Values by their
*numbers*, but *alphabetically* instead of numerically -
which builds the following order:
0, 1, 10, 11, 12, ..., 2, 21, 22, ...
(BTW this mistake, out of casualness, is frequent - and most
often IMO loses more time on the reader's side than it saves on
the writer's one).

3) It happens (probably due to another mistake in Windows code)
that the new profiles you enter, when converted into "Values" to
be stored in the said Registry Key, have no more name.

The result is: as you add new Values that all are losing their
names, as soon as one of them reaches the "10" number, it gets
sorted between "1" and "2"; then it causes all the main Values
(0, 1, 2, 3, .., 8, 9) to be ignored, unless the 0 ("Home/Office
Desk") and 1 ("Portable/Laptop").

Then doing exactly as you said (exporting or deleting all the
Values missing a name), does immediately retrieve all your
profiles - which then were hidden, not lost.
Thanks again Jon!

Paris, Thu 23 Mar 2006 15:32:15 +0100


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Jon" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:52:59 -0000
Subject: Re: Can't save new profiles in "Power Options"

You could try this....

start > run > regedit

Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

Export the key, as a backup, in case you want to restore it.

Look at the various key listed there eg 10, 11, 12 and see what
comes up in the "Name" value in the right pane for each one. See
if any of the keys have no "Name" value key, or a blank one,
or any other strange anomalies, in the right pane and try
exporting/ deleting those.

Try and keep the keys with values 0,1,2,3,4,5 as they're the
default ones.

Then check in Power Options to see if your profiles are now
visible.

Jon


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:09:30 +0100 (10:09:30 GMT)
Subject: Can't save new profiles in "Power Options"

In a newly installed Windows XP Pro, I go to

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options >
Power Schemes,

and I try to save new profiles in the "Power schemes" box
(yes, the path really is "Start > Settings > Control Panel >
Power Options > Power Schemes > Power schemes", with
the uppercase/lowercase "s" being the only difference
between the last 2 stages).

Unfortunately after carefully tuning my profile, I "Save As" it
under a new name (say "Merlin")... only to discover, next time I
come back to Power Options > Power Schemes, that it has
disappeared. The only 3 profiles that remain are the 2 original
ones, "Home/Office Desk" and "Portable/Laptop", and the one I
could save at the very beginning, before they start to
disappear, "Battery Drain" (that I created to help training my
battery).

I tried several different ways:

- 1st changing the settings, 2nd applying, 3rd "Save As" as
"Merlin";
- 1st "Save As" the current profile as "Merlin", 2nd changing
it, 3rd Apply, 4th "OK";
- and so on.

Some ways seem to work but when I come back the new profile has
disappeared (and another one has been selected against my will).

I remember that I had alreay that problem a few years ago
in W2K, and that I searched with no success for weeks
before stumbling on the solution y accident; this is why
all my other PCs (W98SE, W2K, WXPH) have their 6 or 7 profiles
OK. But I can't remember that solution... Thanks for any help,

Paris, Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:09:30 +0100
 
W

Wesley Vogel

dehibernating) consistently comes when *TWO* (external) USB
modems are connected, and consistently *DOESN'T* come when
*ONLY ONE* USB modem is pluggged
Click to expand...

Look for any devices with "Allow the computer to turn off this device to
save power" enabled.

Open Device Manager...
Start | Run | Type: devmgmt.msc | Click OK |
Click the [+] next to Network Adapters | Double click the adapter |
Power Management tab | Check: Allow the computer to turn off this device
to save power | Click OK | Close Device Manager

[[Specifies whether the operating system turns off the selected device if
that device is able to be turned off. If the device is busy doing
something, however, (servicing a call, for example), the operating system
will not shut down the device. The operating system will try to shut down
every possible device only when it is hibernating. Some devices must stay
on at all times. If you need the device to stay on at all times, do not
check this box.]]

Also look at USB Root Hub(s), listed under Universal Serial Bus controllers.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
 
M

Michel Merlin

Thanks for the info. I have indeed a device
(Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC) that has this
"Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power"
checkbox, and it is checked. However this doesn't seem really
related to the issue I was reporting. So I changed nothing
there. Thanks anyway.

Paris, Wed 16 Aug 2006 19:40:45 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Wesley Vogel" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Tue 15 Aug 2006 09:09:46 -0600 (15:09:46 GMT)
Subject: Re: Dehibernating freezes the PC when TWO usb modems
are plugged

Look for any devices with "Allow the computer to turn off this
device to save power" enabled.

Open Device Manager...
Start | Run | Type: devmgmt.msc | Click OK | Click the [+]
next to Network Adapters | Double click the adapter | Power
Management tab | Check: Allow the computer to turn off this
device to save power | Click OK | Close Device Manager

[[Specifies whether the operating system turns off the selected
device if that device is able to be turned off. If the device
is busy doing something, however, (servicing a call, for
example), the operating system will not shut down the device.
The operating system will try to shut down every possible device
only when it is hibernating. Some devices must stay on at all
times. If you need the device to stay on at all times, do not
check this box.]]

Also look at USB Root Hub(s), listed under Universal Serial Bus
controllers.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Tue 15 Aug 2006 11:09:35 +0200 (09:09:35 GMT)
Subject: Dehibernating freezes the PC when TWO usb modems
are plugged

The flaw soon came again. However this time it helped me narrow
the circumstances where it comes:

- yesterday night the laptop was as usual set to hibernate after
30 minutes idle;
- this morning I found it apparently hibernated as due, with
everything turned off (screen black, etc) but with the Power
button still lit in blue (which is abnormal); and when I
pressed that Power button, the PC remained frozen.

So I did many different tries and tests, and remembered and
found that the 2nd flaw above (PC getting frozen when
dehibernating) consistently comes when *TWO* (external) USB
modems are connected, and consistently *DOESN'T* come when
*ONLY ONE* USB modem is pluggged. I report this, hoping that
despite the way MS NGs have turned since ~1999, this
could help some positive soul (I refuse to admit there are no
more here) could duly forward this question with enough
insistence to MS developers to get them really fix it in a
reasonable delay. To help this I report the details of my case:

- laptop is Uniwill 223ei0,
http://www.google.com/search?q=Uniwill+223ei0 ,
http://www.uniwill.com/products/mobility/223ei0/223ei0.php ,
bought from Wolfgang Wuesten,
http://www.ww-mmm.de/xtcommerce/product_info.php?products_id=99
(now "Product not found!"), Sonoma, Pentium M760 (2.0GHz),
2GB, 915GM with gma900, SmartLink 56K Voice Modem (that
stopped working after a few weeks and never recovered despite
extensive research, see "Error 633, (Internal) modem in use,
in Windows XP, is incurable",
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?t=179495&page=3&pp=15#post1376918
and follow links), and unfortunately, no (physical) COM port,
no PC Card PCMCIA slot, and only 2 USB2 slots;
- I usually have 1 slot occupied by an externally-powered 4-port
USB2 hub, and the 2nd slot free for my Digital TV USB key, or
for a regular USB key;
- on the 4-port hub I usually have my mouse
Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 4000 OEM
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/oempartners/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=045
and one of my two external USB modems: a regular one,
USB-powered, "Trust 56K USB Modem MD-1250",
http://www.trust.com/products/product.aspx?artnr=14209 ,
and an "Olitec Self Memory USB V92 Ready" that, designed to
work without a PC (yet actually unable to do so), needs a
power brick.
- Given the respective advantages and flaws of the 2 modems, I
sometimes switch between them; however while I was testing
them I only plugged one at the same time. This period being
passed, at some point yesterday I plugged the 2 modems at the
same time, but didn't think of it when wondering what caused
the freeze, because I had changed other things in the same
time (another small thing that helped me forget this is, when
I unplugged the Olitec, I did it either by actually unplugging
it, or by simply powering it off with its own power button).
- today I did several tests (Hibernating/Resuming through Power
button, or through Start > Shut Down, or by setting Power
Options to Hibernate after 1 minute idle), and repeated them
-- several times with the 2 modems plugged,
-- several times with only the USB-powered Trust
(Olitec still plugged but powered off),
-- several times with only the Olitec
which showed that the freeze consistently occurred with the 2
modems plugged, and never occurred with only 1 of them plugged
or powered on.

Hope this report helps,

Paris, Tue 15 Aug 2006 11:09:35 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 23:56:15 +0200 (21:56:15 GMT)
Subject: WORKAROUNDED - all is in order now - but real solutions
remain to be found

WORKAROUNDED - all is in order now -
but real solutions remain to be found.

The only changes I did are:

1) since the flaws made restarting very frequent, and my laptop
doesn't really need protection (contains nothing secret, and is
used by none else), I tried to remove the requirement for a PWD
at start. So I went into "Start > Settings > Control Panel >
Users Accounts > Change the way users log on or off", which in
my case only returns greyed options, and a windowlet saying "A
recently installed program has disabled the Welcome screen and
Fast User Switching.... The following file name might help...:
IWPDGINA.DLL", but this file is not found in C:\.

2) I hibernated once through "Start > Shut Down > Hibernate"
instead of the Power button.

I don't know if one of these changes is part of what brought the
issue back to normal (they shouldn't, but go figure...), however
anyway now:

- In "Power Options" I have all my profiles;
- Hibernation is available everywhere it should,
- Hibernation is working, both through "Start" or the "Power"
button.

Thanks anyway to Wesley Vogel who came to help.

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 23:56:15 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/uJHUKO%[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 22:52:10 +0200 (20:52:10 GMT)
Subject: "Restart" brings back "Hibernation", but
how to avoid this?

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Here is, in chrono order, what I did and happened:

1) Before your kind reply I had restarted the laptop, which had
brought back Hibernation, but all Hibernation-related settings
have to be reset. Not too annoying by itself, however this is
still another little annoyance that, added to the myriads ones
Windows adds along the year without curing any more the older
ones, finally turns the normally light task of maintaining a PC
in order to work, into a full-time job (Just see around and
guess, which percent of their times most visitors of this NG are
spending in IT and PCs, and which in music, poetry, structural
analysis, or else?).

So I would like (if ever possible) to know how to make this new
little annoyance *NEVER* comes back. Thanks to anyone who would
know how.

2) I came back on the NG and found your quick and kind reply.
From the context (I didn't change my graphic driver since I got
this laptop in Feb 2006, yet this particular issue never
happened before today) I think the problem doesn't come from the
graphic driver. However you are right, better updating, to at
least put that possibility behind me. So this is what I did and
saw:

a) "Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools >
Computer Management > System Tools > Device Manager > Display
adapters > Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset >
Driver" shows:
"Driver Date: Thu 23 Mar 06", "Driver Version: 6.14.10.4384"

b) Latest driver:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Mobile+Intel(R)+915GM/GMS,910GML+Express+Chipset
Chipset:
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/915gm/index.htm
Graphics:
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/gma900/index.htm
Driver (says the latest is 6.14.20.0.4543):
http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/intel915gm/
Release Note:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/10303/ENG/relnotes.htm

c) Downloaded Intel_915GM_win2k_xp1420.exe (5,285,707 Bytes),
double-clicked it and followed until required reboot. Pressed
the Power button, which hibernated. Pressed again, which
dehibernated - but the (blue Windows) screen was frozen, with
even the (white) cursor frozen, and nothing working, even not
Ctrl+Alt+Del. Hold Power pressed down until Shut Down (4 sec).

Restarted, retried: this time, screen was frozen same way
(cursor frozen) but even before Windows (screen black, cursor
white). Shut Down, Restart.

System Restore to 3 hours before driver update. Driver is back
to 6.14.10.4384, but Dehibernating still freezes in black (2
tries).

Undid System Restore. But the new issue (freeze on
Dehibernating) is still there, and Device Manager now shows
6.14.10.4543, i.e. neither exactly the old driver (6.14.10.4384)
nor exactly the new (6.14.20.0.4543).

Uninstalled Intel Graphic Driver (from Control Panel >
Add/Remove Programs), Restart as required, reinstalled the new
driver (double-clicked Intel_915GM_win2k_xp1420.exe), but still
freeze on Dehibernating, and still 6.14.10.4543.

Once again I have lost a lot of time on Microsoft/Intel
programs, "support", help from "volunteers", doing what they
required or suggested, probably with (much) more care than they
put in their own work in the 1st place - and the only result and
reward I got is just another annoyance (Hibernation unusable).

So I would like (if ever possible) to know how to make these TWO
new little annoyances *NEVER* come back:

1. Hibernation disappears.
2. Dehibernation freezes the PC.

Thanks to anyone who would know how.

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 22:52:10 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Wesley Vogel" <[email protected]>
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Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 11:14:22 -0600 (17:14:22 GMT)
Subject: Re: Hibernation disappears from "Power Options"

Update your Video drivers.

So you've lost (or never had) Standby and/or Hibernate?
http://www.rickrogers.org/standby.htm

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200 (17:06:45 GMT)
Subject: Hibernation disappears from "Power Options"

My current laptop has Windows XP Pro US. As on my other PCs (all
with W2KSP4 US or FR, or previously with W98SE US), I set it up
so that pressing the Power On/Off button, or pressing the Sleep
button, or closing the lid, makes the PC hibernate.

Unfortunately on my WXP Pro laptop, I often find it in Stand By,
and opening "Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options"
shows no more "Hibernation":

- in "Power Schemes > Settings for Merlin power scheme",
in the 2 columns ("Plugged in" and "Running on batteries"),
I have only 3 lines:
"Turn off monitor", "Turn off hard disks", "System standby";
- in "Advanced > Power buttons", I now have "Stand by" in the 3
lines (lid, power button, sleep button), instead of my
previous "Hibernate" setting. I still have "Hibernate" in the
3 drop-down lists, but if I select them, click "Apply" and
quit, then come back, I see they have been at once replaced
with "Stand by".
- in "RegEdit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\
PowerPolicies", I have again 2 keys named "17", "18",
but deleting them doesn't bring Hibernation back.

Anyone can help? TIA,

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200


----- Previous Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 15:32:15 +0100 (14:32:15 GMT)
Subject: Lost "Power Options": remove wrong Values in
"PowerPolicies" Registry Key (Thanks Jon!)

Thanks Jon! Right on the spot! Yes this is the solution I used
too, and it worked at once (I make a visible title for others
eventually in the same boat, and I develop for them - knowing
the time that may be wasted looking for this!).

It seems Windows does 3 questionable things in that affair:

1) when parsing the Registry Key you recall
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies),
Windows apparently stops parsing as soon as it hits an
incomplete Value; namely, a Value without a name.

2) This parsing is done by sorting the Values by their
*numbers*, but *alphabetically* instead of numerically -
which builds the following order:
0, 1, 10, 11, 12, ..., 2, 21, 22, ...
(BTW this mistake, out of casualness, is frequent - and most
often IMO loses more time on the reader's side than it saves on
the writer's one).

3) It happens (probably due to another mistake in Windows code)
that the new profiles you enter, when converted into "Values" to
be stored in the said Registry Key, have no more name.

The result is: as you add new Values that all are losing their
names, as soon as one of them reaches the "10" number, it gets
sorted between "1" and "2"; then it causes all the main Values
(0, 1, 2, 3, .., 8, 9) to be ignored, unless the 0 ("Home/Office
Desk") and 1 ("Portable/Laptop").

Then doing exactly as you said (exporting or deleting all the
Values missing a name), does immediately retrieve all your
profiles - which then were hidden, not lost.
Thanks again Jon!

Paris, Thu 23 Mar 2006 15:32:15 +0100


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Jon" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:52:59 -0000
Subject: Re: Can't save new profiles in "Power Options"

You could try this....

start > run > regedit

Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

Export the key, as a backup, in case you want to restore it.

Look at the various key listed there eg 10, 11, 12 and see what
comes up in the "Name" value in the right pane for each one. See
if any of the keys have no "Name" value key, or a blank one,
or any other strange anomalies, in the right pane and try
exporting/ deleting those.

Try and keep the keys with values 0,1,2,3,4,5 as they're the
default ones.

Then check in Power Options to see if your profiles are now
visible.

Jon


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
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Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/%[email protected]
Sent: Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:09:30 +0100 (10:09:30 GMT)
Subject: Can't save new profiles in "Power Options"

In a newly installed Windows XP Pro, I go to

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options >
Power Schemes,

and I try to save new profiles in the "Power schemes" box
(yes, the path really is "Start > Settings > Control Panel >
Power Options > Power Schemes > Power schemes", with
the uppercase/lowercase "s" being the only difference
between the last 2 stages).

Unfortunately after carefully tuning my profile, I "Save As" it
under a new name (say "Merlin")... only to discover, next time I
come back to Power Options > Power Schemes, that it has
disappeared. The only 3 profiles that remain are the 2 original
ones, "Home/Office Desk" and "Portable/Laptop", and the one I
could save at the very beginning, before they start to
disappear, "Battery Drain" (that I created to help training my
battery).

I tried several different ways:

- 1st changing the settings, 2nd applying, 3rd "Save As" as
"Merlin";
- 1st "Save As" the current profile as "Merlin", 2nd changing
it, 3rd Apply, 4th "OK";
- and so on.

Some ways seem to work but when I come back the new profile has
disappeared (and another one has been selected against my will).

I remember that I had alreay that problem a few years ago
in W2K, and that I searched with no success for weeks
before stumbling on the solution y accident; this is why
all my other PCs (W98SE, W2K, WXPH) have their 6 or 7 profiles
OK. But I can't remember that solution... Thanks for any help,

Paris, Thu 23 Mar 2006 11:09:30 +0100
 
M

Michel Merlin

The reason: The problem is when you upgrade RAM to high size
(1Gb or 2Gb), XPSP2 fails to enlarge accordingly the
pagefile.sys file; attempts to hibernate fail, either before or
after, and cause Windows to temporarily remove Hibernate from
the Shut Down options - but without alterating your personal
Power Profiles. Restart restores Hibernation - thus your
original profiles.

The fix: the hotfix of KB909095, that will be added in XP-SP3,
and that meanwhile you will get for free by calling Microsoft in
your country (2.5MB). Details below.

--ooOOoo--

Google "Hibernation disappears"
http://www.google.com/search?q=Hibernation+disappears

GB makes Hibernate mode disappear...
http://forums.agilix.com/forums/4254/ShowPost.aspx
recommends the hotfix KB909095 for hibernation disappearing in
Windows XP with 1 GB RAM or more

<<<<< KB909095 excerpts BEG
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909095/en-us:

SYMPTOMS
You use a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP with
Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
2005, or Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. When
you try to put the computer in hibernation, the computer
occasionally does not hibernate. When this problem occurs, you
receive an error message that is similar to the following:

Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API.

When you experience this problem, the hibernate feature is not
available on the computer until you restart the computer.

This problem typically occurs when the computer uses 1 gigabyte
(GB) or more of RAM.

CAUSE
This problem occurs because the Windows kernel power manager
cannot obtain the memory resources that are required to prepare
the computer to hibernate.

RESOLUTION
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft... This
hotfix may receive additional testing... we recommend that you
wait for the next Windows XP service pack that contains this
hotfix.

To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product
Support Services to obtain the hotfix.
KB909095 excerpts END >>>>>

Google "How to get hotfix 909095"
http://www.google.com/search?q=How+to+get+hotfix+909095

http://www.ntwizards.net/2004/10/13/hibernate
- exchanges about finding and explaining the flaw
- explains how to get the hotfix, but I would change the end:
13. Real Support Rep will e-mail the URL for the wrong version
of the hotfix, and a PWD.
14. Real Support Rep will call you a few hours later, and when
you report the version was wrong, send you the right one (2nd
email OK for me. Expect 3rd or more depending on your care at
spelling "KB909095" and your OS and language - and on your
luck).
15. Download within 7 days (2.56MB). It's a ZIP, that asks you
the PWD for unzipping. That PWD is 7 days too. Contents is
"WindowsXP-KB909095-x86-ENU.exe" (2,531,056 Bytes). Execute it.

The total process was 5 hours in my case. It is tedious, but you
have no other options. In the 1st call, you first suffer at
least 6 minutes of vocal messaging cascade; then ask "I want the
hotfix of KB909095" (don't miss the KB number, spell it very
carefully, and don't say anything else - or you enter infinite
complications). The careful spelling may make them email you an
URL to the right version as soon as in the 2nd try (if in the
1st, please report).

Paris, Wed 16 Aug 2006 19:42:50 +0200


----- Parent Message -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200 (17:06:45 GMT)
Subject: Hibernation disappears from "Power Options"

My current laptop has Windows XP Pro US. As on my other PCs (all
with W2KSP4 US or FR, or previously with W98SE US), I set it up
so that pressing the Power On/Off button, or pressing the Sleep
button, or closing the lid, makes the PC hibernate.

Unfortunately on my WXP Pro laptop, I often find it in Stand By,
and opening "Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options"
shows no more "Hibernation":

- in "Power Schemes > Settings for Merlin power scheme",
in the 2 columns ("Plugged in" and "Running on batteries"),
I have only 3 lines:
"Turn off monitor", "Turn off hard disks", "System standby";
- in "Advanced > Power buttons", I now have "Stand by" in the 3
lines (lid, power button, sleep button), instead of my
previous "Hibernate" setting. I still have "Hibernate" in the
3 drop-down lists, but if I select them, click "Apply" and
quit, then come back, I see they have been at once replaced
with "Stand by".
- in "RegEdit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\
PowerPolicies", I have again 2 keys named "17", "18",
but deleting them doesn't bring Hibernation back.

Anyone can help? TIA,

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200
 
M

Michel Merlin

This flaw too (Dehibernating freezes the PC when TWO usb modems
are plugged) is fixed by hotfix 909095. It must have been
another consequence of the initial bug ("when you upgrade RAM to
high size - 1Gb or 2Gb -, XPSP2 fails to enlarge accordingly the
pagefile"). FWIW,

Paris, Thu 17 Aug 2006 15:53:45 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Tue 15 Aug 2006 11:09:35 +0200 (09:09:35 GMT)
Subject: Dehibernating freezes the PC when TWO usb modems
are plugged

....the 2nd flaw above (PC getting frozen when dehibernating)
consistently comes when *TWO* (external) USB modems are
connected, and consistently *DOESN'T* come when *ONLY ONE* USB
modem is pluggged...
..............
 
M

Michel Merlin

Hibernation problems in XPSP2 with 1GB or more: hotfix KB909095
has just been turned into a DIRECTLY downloadable package
(2.4MB):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6A-A8D6-4627-89F7-787CD9B3852C&displaylang=en
Filename: WindowsXP-KB909095-x86-ENU.exe
(or else replacing "ENU" depending on language)
Date published: Tue 15 Aug 2006

Sources:
http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=34631
Posted 17 Aug 2006 - 19:31
http://bink.nu/Article8087.bink
Posted 17 Aug 2006 at 7:22 PM

Paris, Fri 18 Aug 2006 07:13:50 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Wed 16 Aug 2006 19:42:50 +0200 (17:42:50 GMT))
Subject: SOLVED by hotfix KB909095 (Hibernation disappears in XP if 1GB or more)

The reason: The problem is when you upgrade RAM to high size
(1Gb or 2Gb), XPSP2 fails to enlarge accordingly the
pagefile.sys file; attempts to hibernate fail, either before or
after, and cause Windows to temporarily remove Hibernate from
the Shut Down options - but without alterating your personal
Power Profiles. Restart restores Hibernation - thus your
original profiles.

The fix: the hotfix of KB909095, that will be added in XP-SP3,
and that meanwhile you will get for free by calling Microsoft in
your country (2.5MB). Details below.

--ooOOoo--

Google "Hibernation disappears"
http://www.google.com/search?q=Hibernation+disappears

GB makes Hibernate mode disappear...
http://forums.agilix.com/forums/4254/ShowPost.aspx
recommends the hotfix KB909095 for hibernation disappearing in
Windows XP with 1 GB RAM or more

<<<<< KB909095 excerpts BEG
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909095/en-us:

SYMPTOMS
You use a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP with
Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
2005, or Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. When
you try to put the computer in hibernation, the computer
occasionally does not hibernate. When this problem occurs, you
receive an error message that is similar to the following:

Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API.

When you experience this problem, the hibernate feature is not
available on the computer until you restart the computer.

This problem typically occurs when the computer uses 1 gigabyte
(GB) or more of RAM.

CAUSE
This problem occurs because the Windows kernel power manager
cannot obtain the memory resources that are required to prepare
the computer to hibernate.

RESOLUTION
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft... This
hotfix may receive additional testing... we recommend that you
wait for the next Windows XP service pack that contains this
hotfix.

To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product
Support Services to obtain the hotfix.
KB909095 excerpts END >>>>>

Google "How to get hotfix 909095"
http://www.google.com/search?q=How+to+get+hotfix+909095

http://www.ntwizards.net/2004/10/13/hibernate
- exchanges about finding and explaining the flaw
- explains how to get the hotfix, but I would change the end:
13. Real Support Rep will e-mail the URL for the wrong version
of the hotfix, and a PWD.
14. Real Support Rep will call you a few hours later, and when
you report the version was wrong, send you the right one (2nd
email OK for me. Expect 3rd or more depending on your care at
spelling "KB909095" and your OS and language - and on your
luck).
15. Download within 7 days (2.56MB). It's a ZIP, that asks you
the PWD for unzipping. That PWD is 7 days too. Contents is
"WindowsXP-KB909095-x86-ENU.exe" (2,531,056 Bytes). Execute it.

The total process was 5 hours in my case. It is tedious, but you
have no other options. In the 1st call, you first suffer at
least 6 minutes of vocal messaging cascade; then ask "I want the
hotfix of KB909095" (don't miss the KB number, spell it very
carefully, and don't say anything else - or you enter infinite
complications). The careful spelling may make them email you an
URL to the right version as soon as in the 2nd try (if in the
1st, please report).

Paris, Wed 16 Aug 2006 19:42:50 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200 (17:06:45 GMT)
Subject: Hibernation disappears from "Power Options"

My current laptop has Windows XP Pro US. As on my other PCs (all
with W2KSP4 US or FR, or previously with W98SE US), I set it up
so that pressing the Power On/Off button, or pressing the Sleep
button, or closing the lid, makes the PC hibernate.

Unfortunately on my WXP Pro laptop, I often find it in Stand By,
and opening "Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options"
shows no more "Hibernation":

- in "Power Schemes > Settings for Merlin power scheme",
in the 2 columns ("Plugged in" and "Running on batteries"),
I have only 3 lines:
"Turn off monitor", "Turn off hard disks", "System standby";
- in "Advanced > Power buttons", I now have "Stand by" in the 3
lines (lid, power button, sleep button), instead of my
previous "Hibernate" setting. I still have "Hibernate" in the
3 drop-down lists, but if I select them, click "Apply" and
quit, then come back, I see they have been at once replaced
with "Stand by".
- in "RegEdit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\
PowerPolicies", I have again 2 keys named "17", "18",
but deleting them doesn't bring Hibernation back.

Anyone can help? TIA,

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200
 
M

Michel Merlin

Language-independent URL for Coolfix 909095:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9D20F96A-A8D6-4627-89F7-787CD9B3852C
should serve you the page in your preferred language
(*should*, not sure, can't test thoroughly)
alternative anyway if the previous one (unnecessarily
complicated) failed.

Paris, Fri 18 Aug 2006 12:58:00 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/:[email protected]
Sent: Fri 18 Aug 2006 07:13:50 +0200 (05:13:50 GMT)
Subject: Hibernation problems in XPSP2 with 1GB or more: COOLfix available now (2.4MB)

Hibernation problems in XPSP2 with 1GB or more: hotfix KB909095
has just been turned into a DIRECTLY downloadable package
(2.4MB):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...6A-A8D6-4627-89F7-787CD9B3852C&displaylang=en
Filename: WindowsXP-KB909095-x86-ENU.exe
(or else replacing "ENU" depending on language)
Date published: Tue 15 Aug 2006

Sources:
http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=34631
Posted 17 Aug 2006 - 19:31
http://bink.nu/Article8087.bink
Posted 17 Aug 2006 at 7:22 PM

Paris, Fri 18 Aug 2006 07:13:50 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Wed 16 Aug 2006 19:42:50 +0200 (17:42:50 GMT))
Subject: SOLVED by hotfix KB909095 (Hibernation disappears in XP if 1GB or more)

The reason: The problem is when you upgrade RAM to high size
(1Gb or 2Gb), XPSP2 fails to enlarge accordingly the
pagefile.sys file; attempts to hibernate fail, either before or
after, and cause Windows to temporarily remove Hibernate from
the Shut Down options - but without alterating your personal
Power Profiles. Restart restores Hibernation - thus your
original profiles.

The fix: the hotfix of KB909095, that will be added in XP-SP3,
and that meanwhile you will get for free by calling Microsoft in
your country (2.5MB). Details below.

--ooOOoo--

Google "Hibernation disappears"
http://www.google.com/search?q=Hibernation+disappears

GB makes Hibernate mode disappear...
http://forums.agilix.com/forums/4254/ShowPost.aspx
recommends the hotfix KB909095 for hibernation disappearing in
Windows XP with 1 GB RAM or more

<<<<< KB909095 excerpts BEG
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909095/en-us:

SYMPTOMS
You use a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP with
Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
2005, or Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. When
you try to put the computer in hibernation, the computer
occasionally does not hibernate. When this problem occurs, you
receive an error message that is similar to the following:

Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API.

When you experience this problem, the hibernate feature is not
available on the computer until you restart the computer.

This problem typically occurs when the computer uses 1 gigabyte
(GB) or more of RAM.

CAUSE
This problem occurs because the Windows kernel power manager
cannot obtain the memory resources that are required to prepare
the computer to hibernate.

RESOLUTION
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft... This
hotfix may receive additional testing... we recommend that you
wait for the next Windows XP service pack that contains this
hotfix.

To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product
Support Services to obtain the hotfix.
KB909095 excerpts END >>>>>

Google "How to get hotfix 909095"
http://www.google.com/search?q=How+to+get+hotfix+909095

http://www.ntwizards.net/2004/10/13/hibernate
- exchanges about finding and explaining the flaw
- explains how to get the hotfix, but I would change the end:
13. Real Support Rep will e-mail the URL for the wrong version
of the hotfix, and a PWD.
14. Real Support Rep will call you a few hours later, and when
you report the version was wrong, send you the right one (2nd
email OK for me. Expect 3rd or more depending on your care at
spelling "KB909095" and your OS and language - and on your
luck).
15. Download within 7 days (2.56MB). It's a ZIP, that asks you
the PWD for unzipping. That PWD is 7 days too. Contents is
"WindowsXP-KB909095-x86-ENU.exe" (2,531,056 Bytes). Execute it.

The total process was 5 hours in my case. It is tedious, but you
have no other options. In the 1st call, you first suffer at
least 6 minutes of vocal messaging cascade; then ask "I want the
hotfix of KB909095" (don't miss the KB number, spell it very
carefully, and don't say anything else - or you enter infinite
complications). The careful spelling may make them email you an
URL to the right version as soon as in the 2nd try (if in the
1st, please report).

Paris, Wed 16 Aug 2006 19:42:50 +0200


----- Parent Message (links are clickable) -----
From: "Michel Merlin" <[email protected]>
Newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Message: news://msnews.microsoft.com/[email protected]
Sent: Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200 (17:06:45 GMT)
Subject: Hibernation disappears from "Power Options"

My current laptop has Windows XP Pro US. As on my other PCs (all
with W2KSP4 US or FR, or previously with W98SE US), I set it up
so that pressing the Power On/Off button, or pressing the Sleep
button, or closing the lid, makes the PC hibernate.

Unfortunately on my WXP Pro laptop, I often find it in Stand By,
and opening "Start > Settings > Control Panel > Power Options"
shows no more "Hibernation":

- in "Power Schemes > Settings for Merlin power scheme",
in the 2 columns ("Plugged in" and "Running on batteries"),
I have only 3 lines:
"Turn off monitor", "Turn off hard disks", "System standby";
- in "Advanced > Power buttons", I now have "Stand by" in the 3
lines (lid, power button, sleep button), instead of my
previous "Hibernate" setting. I still have "Hibernate" in the
3 drop-down lists, but if I select them, click "Apply" and
quit, then come back, I see they have been at once replaced
with "Stand by".
- in "RegEdit > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\
PowerPolicies", I have again 2 keys named "17", "18",
but deleting them doesn't bring Hibernation back.

Anyone can help? TIA,

Paris, Mon 14 Aug 2006 19:06:45 +0200
 

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