Power Saving Schemes

[Aloha]

I accidentally/stupidly deleted the various Power Saving Schemes in the
Power Options settings. All that is left is "Portable/Laptop". This
setting does not work consistently for my desktop system. I have tried to
"recreate" the "Home/Office Desk" setting by typing it in when I do the Save
As/Apply sequence, but it will not take. Any fix available?

Aloha and Mahalo from the Big Island of Hawaii.

Gene

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[Jon]

This is pretty tentative advice, so take it as you will, but it seems to
have done the trick for me, since I had a similar problem recently with
power schemes disappearing

start > run > regedit

Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

Look at the various key listed there eg 10, 11, 12 and see what comes up in
the "Name" value in the right pane
A couple of my keys had no "Description" or "Name" value key in the right
pane and when I exported / deleted those, the
other Power Schemes returned.

If you don't have keys with values 0,1,2,3,4,5 then yes you've deleted them.

There are "backup" copies in
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies
which you could try exporting and then modify the .reg file (right-click and
choose edit and change all occurrences of "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT" to
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER") and then click on the .reg to import the bits you need
into your current user section
(not tried this myself so take it as you will)


Jon

 

[Aloha]

Thanks Jon, This helped quite a bit. There were about 60 (!!!!) keys
without values. Seems like every time I had tried to save a setting that
"popped up" an incompatible setting notification, a new valueless key was
created.

After removing the invalid keys, 1 through 5 reappeared fine, but the " 0
Home/Office Desk" setting was deleted as feared. I tried your alternative
suggestion, but I'm not very strong in the registry department. I could
export the backup file, but couldn't figure out how to import it into the
Current User folder.

The jury-rigged solution of just saving preferences as "Presentation" seems
to be working for now.

Again, many thanks.


Gene

 

[Aloha]

Thanks again Jon, I figured out how to export, edit, and import the backup
registry that you described.........Everything is back to "normal".


Gene

 

[Jon]

Great! Pleased to hear it worked.

Another thing which is probably not relevant to you, but I'll mention it
anyway.
On one occasion, my power schemes stopped working, and it turned out that
it was the background Disk Defragmenter that was interfering. After I'd done
a full defrag on the drive, things returned to normal, and the power schemes
resumed working.

Jon