Power options

[Antares 531]

I posted this three days ago on the microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
board but have gotten no responses. Maybe I'll fare better here.


Running Windows XP Pro SP3 on a desktop computer. I have had no other
problems, recently, but yesterday I noticed the computer would not go
into power saving mode. The screen saver would work...sometimes, but
it never got beyond this.

I opened Control Panel - Power Options and the settings looked as they
should, but when I tried to save these settings I got an error
message. I don't remember precisely what the error message said but in
general it indicated that there was some sort of conflict.

I deleted the power settings, intending to set them up fresh, but this
didn't work. Now all I get is a bunch of grayed out slots where the
information used to be.

What is the best way, or is there any way to recover from this error?

Thanks, Gordon

 

[Unknown]

Have you tried system restore?

 

[3c273]

Is this a laptop? If so, they sometimes come with their own power management
software which disables the built in controls. I have a Toshiba laptop that
has this. Check your start menu to see if there are any power related
programs listed.
Louis

 

[Ronaldo]

Go to Start\Run\type; regedit and hit Enter, browse to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\CurrentPowerPolicy => set the data
to 0 (zero), close the registry and check the Power Management settings in
Control Panel. If the slots are still the grayed out. Repeat the registry
edition and restart the computer.

 

[Antares 531]

Thanks, this seems to have fixed the problem.

Have you tried system restore?

 

[Antares 531]

Ronaldo, I checked my registry entries as you suggested and they are
very complex. There are 18 folders in the Current Power Policy folder.
I was afraid to tinker with them.

I did a System Restore and that seems to have fixed the problem.
Thanks to all who responded.

 

[Ronaldo]

Yes, restoring the system is the first and obvious step to take, my
sugestion was in case it didn't fix it.. the idea was to change only the
"CurrentPowerPolicy" REG_SZ data to 0, hoping it would disable the
corrupted settings and allow reseting the Power Management.

Glad you solved it.

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[Unknown]

You're welcome. System restore is the best fixer-upper (for lack of better
words) that Microsoft
ever created. Keep it healthy.

 

[Kelly]

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