Power Options

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I've noticed that Power Options has only 2 Power Schemes
available, Home/Office and Portable/Laptop,and if I try
to save a new one, it won't take. New users who are made
administrators have more choices, and new schemes can be
saved. Is this "by design" ??

I was also wondering where user-created power schemes are
stored. Couldn't find them with the Find files feature.
 
I've noticed that Power Options has only 2 Power Schemes
available, Home/Office and Portable/Laptop,and if I try
to save a new one, it won't take. New users who are made
administrators have more choices, and new schemes can be
saved. Is this "by design" ??
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Is your ID an administrator? Limited users do not have the authority to
add/edit power schemes.
I was also wondering where user-created power schemes are
stored. Couldn't find them with the Find files feature.
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Power schemes, and much of your windows configuration information, is
stored in the registry. Your power scheme info is stored in the registry
at HCKU\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Smart Display
http://support.telop.org

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Is your ID an administrator? Limited users do not have the authority to
add/edit power schemes.
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Administrator. That's why I was wondering. The
secondary "named" administrators have about 6 power
schemes at startup, and can add more, but the main
captital A Administrator at startup, had only 2 power
schemes, and can't "save" more -- even tho the Save
button is there. All he/she can do is save changes to
Home/Office Desk, and Portable/Laptop -- these 2 only,
and click OK on any changes made to them. Creating and
saving new schemes is impossible for the capital A
administrator, even tho the Save button is not grayed
out. Any new schemes he tries to save are gone, the next
time Control Panel > Power Options is opened. Is this
normal operation of win xp pro, for the capital A
Administrator? Anyone know?

Thanks for the registry info Tom Porterfield. I can take
a look at that and see if maybe something there was
corrupted?
 
AAk. I have about 36 numbered "keys," are they called, on
the left side, under "power policies" -- many of them
with "data," is it called, on the right side -- with
named power schemes I tried to save, but which never show
up in the Control Panel > Power Options schemes window.
Some of them are exact duplicates of others.!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Once I created a new Named Administrator (Ted) -- if I go
back to Ctrl Panel > Power Options and select one of the
power schemes I created and try to re-save to it (aftr
making changes in the times for shutting of monitor,
etc), I get and error message saying "Power Policy
Manager unable to set Polices -- Indicates 2 revision
levels are incompatible"

????? anyone know what that means?
 
After I start a new named administrator and made a custom
power scheme, saved a custom power scheme, then went back
and tried to save a new one (with new times such as
monitor shutdown time, etc), I get an error message
saying:

Power Policy Manger Unable to Set Policy -- indicates 2
revision levels are incompatible.

???????

Anyone know what that means?
 
I have exactly the same
For no reason what so ever, I changed a power scheme and got the error message "Power Policy Manager unable to set Polices -- Indicates 2 revision levels are incompatible", I restarted my laptop and now I only have 2 power options. Nothing has been changed on the laptop, I have changed and added power schemes before and never a problem. Anyone know how to cure it

Thank


----- soilman wrote: ----

Once I created a new Named Administrator (Ted) -- if I go
back to Ctrl Panel > Power Options and select one of the
power schemes I created and try to re-save to it (aftr
making changes in the times for shutting of monitor,
etc), I get and error message saying "Power Policy
Manager unable to set Polices -- Indicates 2 revision
levels are incompatible

????? anyone know what that means
 
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