New power manager software loses power schemes!

[ark]

I just installed the latest power management driver (courtesy of ThinkVantage System Update) and found that al the power-management schemes are gone -- their names are blank!

Furthermore, when I try to enter a new scheme, and save it, nothing happens -- the schemes are still all blank.

How do I get my power schemes back?

[ark]

PS: I tried reinstalling the latest ACPI power manager and latest Thinkpad power manager. No luck.

[GomJabbar]

You might be best off using Windows System Restore to get your system back to how it was.

[GomJabbar]

After I posted the above, I remembered the following thread. Maybe you will find a solution there.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=39568

[ark]

Oh dear. I did recently install WinDVD, which seems to be related to the problem.

[ark]

I just tried System Restore, and it said it couldn't restore to the point I requested. Looking at the other thread, I see that there are registry keys in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies, and when I look there, there are 105 distinct subkeys. So I imagine the problem is that someting, perhaps WinDVD, has flooded the keys; but I don't know how to proceed from there.

[GomJabbar]

Try System Restore from Windows SAFE MODE.

If that doesn't work, by any chance do you have Norton Antivirus installed?

Message: "Restoration Incomplete. Your computer cannot be restored . . . " when you run Windows System Restore

[ark]

OK, so I went back to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies and noted that the policies with numbers smaller than 10 appeared reasonable, 10 was empty, and numbers larger than 10 appeared mostly reasonable as well.

Theory: Someone installed a blank policy in 10, and subsequent installs got confused. So I simply deleted all the keys greater than 9 (i.e. numbers 10 through 105) and now the power manager appears to work again.

Strange.

[ark]

Thanks for the note about Norton AntiVirus.

However, as deleting a bunch of registry keys appears to have fixed the problem, I'm not going to do the system restore at this time

[ezlynx]

For what it's worth, I foolishly decided to use the Thinkvantage updating stuff. Updated a bunch of things on my T61 running XP. My power manager battery display disappeared.

Called support and they had me install (I think in some cases after uninstalling) several updates.

I used these executables, found on Lenovo's site:

7ku705ww.exe
7kuy03cw.exe
7kvu22ww.exe

One of them was the power manager. I think it took a restart to get things looking like they should.

Asking about the Thinkvantage automatic updates, the support person admitted most of the staff there doesn't use them. After this experience, I feel like if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[hypertrophy]

For what it's worth, I foolishly decided to use the Thinkvantage updating stuff. Updated a bunch of things on my T61 running XP. My power manager battery display disappeared
.

Called support and they had me install (I think in some cases after uninstalling) several updates.

I used these executables, found on Lenovo's site:

7ku705ww.exe
7kuy03cw.exe
7kvu22ww.exe

One of them was the power manager. I think it took a restart to get things looking like they should.

Asking about the Thinkvantage automatic updates, the support person admitted most of the staff there doesn't use them. After this experience, I feel like if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I hope this isnt too far off topic- I did a manual install of the new Thinkpad Power Manager Utility and Thinkpad ACPI Power Management driver (the battery icon was normal at this point). Then i did a normal windows update, and upon reboot, my Thinkpad Power Manager battery icon had basically disappeared, becoming transparent and barely visible with a light colored background. Anyone know of a resolution for this Vista Taskbar / Thinkpad Power Manager utility quirk?

[mt256]

I created a new temporary local user on my box, exported the reg keys for the the schemes, went back to my profile, deleted the root powercfg and imported. Worked like a charm! Thank you!

If anyone wants, I will send the .reg file. It's a bit too big to paste here...