Power management

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I have a Compaq Presario 2305CA (2000 series) laptop with Win XP sp2.

All updates are up to date, scanned with anti-virus, on pc and online
scanner and no viruses. No Spyware. I scanned for all and system is clean.

The problem:
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When I go into power management (in display options) there are only 2 power
management schemes in the list. Used to be about 6. Also, any power schemes
I create are never kept once I close the display settings panel. They were
there up to about 3 days ago from this post.

I called Compaq and all they could find to suggest is to do a system
recovery which their version of reinstalling Windows! That's the same as
telling someone to buy a new car because a service garage can't perform an
oil change! I'm thoroughly disgusted by MS redistributors who fail to assume
responsability for the distribution of their product.

Anyhow, I tried creating a new windows profile and the new profile showed
everything intact as well as tests I performed. They all came out
succesfull. This would mean that my orignal profile with the problem has a
corrupted registry in relation to the power management options.

I'm not MSCE and I may be way off base, but it sounds like something that
requires a reg fix.

Can anyone help me PLEASE???

Crazy AL
 
(e-mail address removed),
Crazy AL said:
I have a Compaq Presario 2305CA (2000 series) laptop with
Win XP sp2.

All updates are up to date, scanned with anti-virus, on pc
and online scanner and no viruses. No Spyware. I scanned
for all and system is clean.

The problem:
----------------
When I go into power management (in display options) there
are only 2 power management schemes in the list. Used to be
about 6. Also, any power schemes I create are never kept
once I close the display settings panel. They were there up
to about 3 days ago from this post.

I called Compaq and all they could find to suggest is to do
a system recovery which their version of reinstalling
Windows! That's the same as telling someone to buy a new
car because a service garage can't perform an oil change!
I'm thoroughly disgusted by MS redistributors who fail to
assume responsability for the distribution of their product.

Anyhow, I tried creating a new windows profile and the new
profile showed everything intact as well as tests I
performed. They all came out succesfull. This would mean
that my orignal profile with the problem has a corrupted
registry in relation to the power management options.

I'm not MSCE and I may be way off base, but it sounds like
something that requires a reg fix.

Can anyone help me PLEASE???

Crazy AL
Click to expand...

I ran into the same problem recently. From what I could gather
one of the power schemes I had created was the cause of this
problem. Here's what I did to fix it.

The power schemes are stored in this registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

Normally, within this key there are the 6 default schemes
contained in subkeys numbered from 0 to 5. I had extra subkeys
numbered from 6 to 10.

To fix the problem I first backed up the entire PowerPolicies
key by right clicking on it in the left hand pane and selecting
Export from the menu. I saved the .reg file on the desktop. I
then deleted subkeys 6 through 10. That fixed the problem.

An alternative approach would be to export the entire PowerCfg
key, delete it and apply this registry fix:

Courtesy of Kelly Theriot, MS-MVP
Line 204, right hand column, Restore Power
Schemes/Configuration
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
You've just become my new best friend. I followed your instructions to the
letter and as you predicted, there was about 21 reg entries, 12 of them being
invalid. (9 - 20) and 3 missing entries (6 - 8). I deleted everything above
5 and what do ya know? All went back to normal!!!

Thanks a billion dude! Good work!

Crazy AL
 
You're welcome. Glad to hear that fixed the problem.

Nepatsfan

(e-mail address removed),
 
My registry has 5 power policies, still won't automatically standby or
hibernate at the time setting of 1 hour... any other ideas????? thanks.
 
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