lazygourmet Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 On Acer 4920 with Windows XP Pro, I am barely using the laptop on battery. But today, after an electricity shortage, it didn't switch on it anymore. So after a restart I checked power options. Battery showed full but power schemes lists only Desktop and Laptop as choices. How can I restore the others schemes and recover the use of the battery? Thanks in advance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfact Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 Found this and it might help to solve your problem - First off, go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> System Restore and create a restore point before following the procedure outlined below. Now, go to Start -> Run and enter regedit.exe in the Open box. Click OK. In the Registry Editor, click on the + signs in the left hand pane to navigate to the following location. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies Under this registry key you should see 6 subkeys numbered 0 through 5. These represent the default power schemes that come with XP. Any subkeys numbered 6 or more represent power schemes created by the user. If you find any numbered 6 or more, right click on each one and select Delete from the menu. In the end you should only have the subkeys numbered 0 to 5 remaining under the PowerPolicies registry key. Do the same for this registry key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls Folder\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies If it turns out that this doesn't help with your problem, download and run this registry fix. Line 204, right hand column, Restore Power Schemes/Configurations http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazygourmet Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 Thank you webfact, Not too much time now, but I will do it in the morning and keep you posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazygourmet Posted February 8, 2009 Author Share Posted February 8, 2009 Found this and it might help to solve your problem -First off, go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> System Restore and create a restore point before following the procedure outlined below. Now, go to Start -> Run and enter regedit.exe in the Open box. Click OK. In the Registry Editor, click on the + signs in the left hand pane to navigate to the following location. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies Under this registry key you should see 6 subkeys numbered 0 through 5. These represent the default power schemes that come with XP. Any subkeys numbered 6 or more represent power schemes created by the user. If you find any numbered 6 or more, right click on each one and select Delete from the menu. In the end you should only have the subkeys numbered 0 to 5 remaining under the PowerPolicies registry key. Do the same for this registry key. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls Folder\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies If it turns out that this doesn't help with your problem, download and run this registry fix. Line 204, right hand column, Restore Power Schemes/Configurations http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm Thank you for the tip, it works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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