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Howto: Repair Power schemes

Written by Christian on March 2, 2008 – 1:57 pm


xplogoIn some cases, an error may occur when trying to view, change or add a power scheme. This may be due some corrupted registry settings in your registry. To repair your registry settings of your power management, you need to restore the default settings of your power schemes. Follow these steps to recover your power schemes:

  1. Go to Start - Run - Regedit
  2. On the left side, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Control Panel | PowerCFG
  3. Right-click on PowerCFG, choose Export, and save it as “old-powercfg.reg” (or any other name you want, this is just a backup)
  4. Now, right click again and choose Delete. The incorrect settings are now deleted
  5. To download the correct default power scheme settings, right click and save the following file: powerscheme.reg
  6. Navigate to the file you have just downloaded. Double-click. When alerted if you are sure you want to add the settings, click Yes
  7. Go to your Power scheme again and see your power settings are restored to their defaults.

 

Update 31 july 2008:

Some people seem to have some problem when they doubleclick the reg-file. Here are the instructions when doubleclicking doesn’t work:

  1. Save the registry file to somewhere on your computer
  2. Open the Registry (start -> run -> “regedit” -> OK)
  3. Click File -> Import
  4. Navigate to the saved file and click “Open”
  5. Confirm the Import

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15 Comments to “Howto: Repair Power schemes”

  1. Gibbaan Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    Thanx It owrked !!!

  2. Alan Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    Thank you very much. Worked like a charm. Power Scheme is back as it should be.

  3. Len Says:
    April 21st, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    Did not really work. My goal is to have my machine go into standby mode at preset interval, after 1 hour. My machine will only go into standby at interval of 3 minutes or less. Setting it for 5 min. or more it will not go into standby. Any help would be appreciated.
    PS- hard drive acted in same manor before this “fix”

    Thanks . Len

    Any help would be appreciated. contact at: lenzo@optonline.net

  4. Lee Says:
    May 4th, 2008 at 12:51 am

    Worked like a charm for me. I somehow deleted all my power schemes, couldn’t even get them back with a XP repair. Thank God for poeple that understand this stuff for the rest of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  5. kam Says:
    May 31st, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    Worked great! Thanks

  6. JohnS Says:
    June 4th, 2008 at 11:42 am

    brilliant…..first time of dared touch anything like the ‘registry’…worked like a charm and so easy…thankyou

  7. Larry Says:
    June 9th, 2008 at 5:43 am

    Thank you for the registry download to repair my power schemes. It worked exactly as you said it would. As a total technophobe, I am grateful to you (whoever you are) and your fabulous website.

  8. John Walters Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    I did everything you said to do, deleted the registry file, downloaded the program, but when opening the file, it says run an goes to a notepad file, doesn’t ask me anything about saving changes to the registry, am I doing something wrong?

  9. Don Cowee Says:
    July 16th, 2008 at 2:01 am

    Hi, John, I also had the same problem with it going to notepad and not entering the registry. I fixed this by going back into the registry and selecting import and navagating to where I saved the file. Then got the confirmation that it was saved to the registry. Worked like a charm.

  10. admin Says:
    July 16th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    Don, that’s another way to do it, indeed. To make it all clear, here are the steps to do it
    1. Save the registry file to somewhere on your computer
    2. Open the Registry (start -> run -> “regedit” -> OK)
    3. Click File -> Import
    4. Navigate to the saved file and click “Open”
    5. Confirm the Import

  11. Tom Teets Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 2:47 am

    Problem. Followed instructions up to step 6 (right click and save. Being a novice at this, right click what? The power cfg is gone now so how or what do I right click on?

  12. Tom Teets Says:
    July 31st, 2008 at 3:20 am

    Answered my own question. Followed #10 instructions and bang-zoom, i got my power schemes back. You guys are the best. Thanks again.

  13. Linda Irvine Says:
    August 12th, 2008 at 12:19 am

    You completely rock. I went in to try and wrestle with Sleep, Standby and Hibernate one more time and was dismayed to find all my Power settings disabled!

    I followed your instructions exactly and am happy to report they worked perfectly - all power options are back!

    Thank you for sharing this - you saved me several hours of frustration :-)

  14. JT Says:
    August 20th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    Worked like a charm. I Accendentailly delete my power schemes and this FIXED it all

  15. JR Says:
    August 27th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    OMG! Thanks a million!

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