power options unavailable

[Guest]

I have a defrag program that I have set to run when my screen saver is on. I
also set my monitors to turn off at the same time as the screen saver because
they don't need to be on. I set the screen saver to turn on and the monitor
to go off at 2 minutes. after a while my monitor did not turn off. I kept
re-setting the power scheme, but it never stayed. I saved it as a power
scheme and that got deleted. I tried saving it as a power scheme and
deleting the others so it would have to use the one I set, but it got deleted
again and now I cannot set the power options at all. the fields are grayed
out.

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi,

See if this command helps, from Start/Run:

cmd /k powercfg /RestoreDefaultPolicies

Press Enter

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I have a defrag program that I have set to run when my screen saver is on. I
also set my monitors to turn off at the same time as the screen saver because
they don't need to be on. I set the screen saver to turn on and the monitor
to go off at 2 minutes. after a while my monitor did not turn off. I kept
re-setting the power scheme, but it never stayed. I saved it as a power
scheme and that got deleted. I tried saving it as a power scheme and
deleting the others so it would have to use the one I set, but it got deleted
again and now I cannot set the power options at all. the fields are grayed
out.

 

[vikrant]

alternative

a shareware "turn off monitor" at http://www.rtsoftwares.com