taskbar power options popup menu

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I have my power options icon resident on my taskbar (in the system tray). In
my regular power
options drop down menu, I have the default options available, as well as a
few custom settings. When I left-click the systray icon, the popup menu
shows
those options, but there are multiple instances of my custom settings, so
that the popup menu looks like this:

Home/Office
Portable/Laptop
Now
Always On
Always On
Always On
Always On
Always On
Presentation
Never
Now
Now

I've tried deleting the deleting the custom settings, de-selecting "show on
taskbar" from power options, rebooting, and re-selecting the taskbar option,
but the popup menu still shows the above conflagration. Where are these
options stored, and how do I return the popup menu to just the choices
available in the power options drop-down menu?
thx-
c.
 
All or none.

Open Power Options Properties...
Start | Run | Type: powercfg.cpl | Click OK |
Advanced tab | UNCheck:
Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby |
Click Apply | Click OK

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Sorry to report this had no effect at all; I'm guessing those popup menu
items are stored somewhere either in one of the windows folders or in the
registry, and have to be altered or deleted to change the popup menu, like
renaming a password to remove the old password prompt in older Windows
versions?
c.
 
Wes,
You posted this answer in two different posts. This one is not talking
about password on resume, this is talking about the power options in
the systray. I am curious as to how it got out of synch in the first
place.

I found these settings at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCFG\PowerPolicies\
in the registry.

backup your registry before making changes. Check to see if you find
duplicates in this list (different number for the key, but same Name).
If you do, rename and/or delete the extraneous keys, and it should
correct your problem (hopefully).
 
Okay, that raises a preliminary question: a little research tells me that to
"backup your registry" I have to install the backup utility from the WinXP
Home Edition ValueAdd folder, but that once I use Backup in WinXP Home
Edition, Automated System Recovery is not a supported feature. Now, I
already did create a new restore point for system recovery, is that enough
of a backup of my registry, or should I use the Backup feature before trying
to tweak the registry?
thx-
c.
 
Okay, that raises a preliminary question: a little research tells me that
to "backup your registry" I have to install the backup utility from the
WinXP Home Edition ValueAdd folder, but that once I use Backup in WinXP
Home Edition, Automated System Recovery is not a supported feature. Now, I
already did create a new restore point for system recovery, is that enough
of a backup of my registry, or should I use the Backup feature before
trying to tweak the registry?
Click to expand...

Any help with this question?
 
Can someone help me with my question about whether I should use Backup or is
System Restore enough?
thx-
c.
Okay, that raises a preliminary question: a little research tells me that
to "backup your registry" I have to install the backup utility from the
WinXP Home Edition ValueAdd folder, but that once I use Backup in WinXP
Home Edition, Automated System Recovery is not a supported feature. Now, I
already did create a new restore point for system recovery, is that enough
of a backup of my registry, or should I use the Backup feature before
trying to tweak the registry?
Click to expand...
 
System Restore may be enough. I do not use it, I use ERUNT.

Get both of these...

NTREGOPT NT Registry Optimizer
ERUNT The Emergency Recovery Utility NT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

Direct download links (the zip files just need unzipping and dropping on the
drive. {Thank you, Jim}
http://aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip

http://aumha.org/downloads/ntregopt.zip

ERUNT [[Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to
make a complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole
registry (for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is
saved), nor can the exported file be used later to replace the current
registry with the old one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is
merged with the current registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of
old and new registry keys.]]
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt

NTREGOPT [[Similar to Windows 9x/Me, the registry files in an NT-based
system can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your hard
disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance. You should
use the NTREGOPT utility regularly, but especially after installing
or uninstalling a program, to minimize the size of the registry files
and optimize registry access.

The program works by recreating each registry hive "from scratch",
thus removing any slack space that may be left from previously
modified or deleted keys.

Note that the program does NOT change the contents of the registry in
any way, nor does it physically defrag the registry files on the drive
(as the PageDefrag program from SysInternals does). The optimization
done by NTREGOPT is simply compacting the registry hives to the
minimum size possible.]]
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/ntregopt.txt

Installing & Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html

To see an illustrated registry restore procedure
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_erdntuse.html

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
 
Thank-you, that is very comprehensive, I'll do this over the weekend, and
report back if there's anything to report.
c.

Wesley Vogel said:
System Restore may be enough. I do not use it, I use ERUNT.

Get both of these...

NTREGOPT NT Registry Optimizer
ERUNT The Emergency Recovery Utility NT
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

Direct download links (the zip files just need unzipping and dropping on
the
drive. {Thank you, Jim}
http://aumha.org/downloads/erunt.zip

http://aumha.org/downloads/ntregopt.zip

ERUNT [[Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to
make a complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole
registry (for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is
saved), nor can the exported file be used later to replace the current
registry with the old one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is
merged with the current registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of
old and new registry keys.]]
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt

NTREGOPT [[Similar to Windows 9x/Me, the registry files in an NT-based
system can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your hard
disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance. You should
use the NTREGOPT utility regularly, but especially after installing
or uninstalling a program, to minimize the size of the registry files
and optimize registry access.

The program works by recreating each registry hive "from scratch",
thus removing any slack space that may be left from previously
modified or deleted keys.

Note that the program does NOT change the contents of the registry in
any way, nor does it physically defrag the registry files on the drive
(as the PageDefrag program from SysInternals does). The optimization
done by NTREGOPT is simply compacting the registry hives to the
minimum size possible.]]
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/ntregopt.txt

Installing & Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html

To see an illustrated registry restore procedure
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_erdntuse.html

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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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cronish said:
Can someone help me with my question about whether I should use Backup or
is System Restore enough?
thx-
c.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Okay, I backed up my registry using ERUNT, and then went to the below-listed
folder in Regedit.exe, and deleted the redundant folders, and that did,
indeed, remove the redundant entries from the popup menu in the taskbar.
Thanks for your assistance, and for the referral to ERUNT and NTREGOPT,
which I'm now going to run.
cheers-
c.
 
What's the deal with NTREGOPT? I ran it and when I rebooted, my system
crashed. I had to boot to the cd-rom and run "repair" from the WinXP disk,
and restore to a previous setting. When NTREGOPT was running, it did give me
a few error messages, but I selected to go on to the next batch. Any idea
what that was all about?
thx-
c.
 
I do not have a clue.

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