Howto: Repair Power schemes In 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: Go to Start – Run – Regedit On the left side, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Control Panel | PowerCFG Right-click on PowerCFG, choose Export, and save it as “old-powercfg.reg” (or any other name you want, this is just a backup) Now, right click again and choose Delete. The incorrect settings are now deleted To download the correct default power scheme settings, right click and save the following file: Navigate to the file you have just downloaded. Double-click. When alerted if you are sure you want to add the settings, click Yes Go to your Power scheme again and see your power settings are restored to their defaults. Update 31 july 2008: Some people seem to havesome problem when they doubleclick the reg-file. Here are the instructions when doubleclicking doesn’t work: Save the registry file to somewhere on your computer Open the Registry (start -> run -> “regedit” -> OK) Click File -> Import Navigate to the saved file and click “Open” Confirm the Import
