Saving Power Schemes in Windows XP Problem

[Philippe]

I've tried to save new Power Schemes with my Win XP SP2 Computer to no
avail. The computer saves them but does not display them after going back
in. I tried the suggestion located in Article 231663 of Microsoft Knowledge
base.

i.e.

To work around this issue, use Registry Editor to remove all but the default
subkeys 0, 1, and 3 in the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Powercfg\PowerPolicies


This was also the idea from the article located at
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-35602.html where
reomval of corrupt registry entries is suggested.

So with my current power schemes I have only Home/Office Desk or
Portable/Laptop as the 2 possible schemes after deleting all but the 0,1 & 3
subkeys. New policies I set are present in the registry but Windows does not
"see" them.

To quote from the TV show "It ain't half hot, Mum", "tricky one, Ashwood"


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[Richard Urban]

Save them with a new name instead of over writing the original one.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

Richard I've tried that.

It accepts and saves the new name but on closing the Power Scheme Dialogue &
accepting the new scheme, it reverts to what I had before i.e. the Home /
Office Power Scheme. It will also successfully change to the Laptop Scheme
i.e. the other possible but won't successfully display the new Power Scheme
after acceppting & hitting the OK button.

Weird I think.

Cheers
Phil D.

 

[Malke]

Richard I've tried that.

It accepts and saves the new name but on closing the Power Scheme
Dialogue & accepting the new scheme, it reverts to what I had before
i.e. the Home / Office Power Scheme. It will also successfully change
to the Laptop Scheme i.e. the other possible but won't successfully
display the new Power Scheme after acceppting & hitting the OK button.

Did your laptop come with a power management program from the OEM?
Laptops usually do. It may be overriding the Windows power management
applet.

Malke

 

[Guest]

Hi Malke,

It ain't a laptop - it is a Desktop an Asus Motherboard, P5 something I
think (I'm at work now !) - a Pentium 4 running at 3.2 GHz - purchased new
in 3/2005. I'm thinking maybe something in the BIOS but I don't know - maybe
corruption in the Power Management section of the Registry. I'm not sure how
much I can delete out of the Registry in this section without destroying my
working copy of Windows !

Cheers
Phil D.

 

[Philippe]

Thanks to all for the replies - I just solved this problem by getting game &
deleting the Registry number key (number 3 I think) to the value "Always On"
that did not appear in Windows despite deletion in Windows. There must have
been some corruption in that part of the Registry since I am now able to add
new Power Schemes as I like.


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