Missing power plans

[maxpostal]

Hello!

Gone Power Plans at Power Options. Does not change the brightness of the monitor using the function keys.
Tell me please, is there a way to restore profiles, without the restoration of the initial state of the system.

Windows 8 64-bit

HP ENVY dv6-7260er

regards

Max

[maxpostal]

I cannot seem to edit the power settings to my laptop. I click on power options to change when it can sleep and I get the error:

(X) Your power plan information isn't available.

[DavidPK · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try the following which should repair the registry entries relating to your power options - this is a slight variation of a fix that was originally for Vista..

First of all, make sure HP Power Manager ( if you have this installed ) has been uninstalled and restart the notebook.

Next, if you don't have an extraction utility installed, download and install 7-Zip.  Please note, if you have a 64bit installation, download and install the .msi 64-bit x64 installer on the link below.

http://www.7-zip.org/

Download PsTools by Mark Russinovich, extract the files by right clicking the folder, select 7-Zip and select Extract Here. Copy PsExec, open Computer, open Local Disk C, open Windows and paste this file inside the System32 folder - click the UAC prompt to agree.

Now download and extract the registry file on the link below - this does contain 1 custom setting, but can be deleted at the end.

Power Options.

Open the folder and copy the registry file inside.

Open Computer, open Local Disk C, open Windows, open System32, open config, open systemprofile, right click and create a new folder here called Desktop.  Open the Desktop folder and paste the registry file here.

Open windows Command Prompt by right clicking and selecting 'Run as Administrator', then enter the following command.

psexec -s -i -d regedit

Click Agree to to sysinternals prompt to launch the registry editor.  Click File, Import, select the PowerOpt file and click open - you should get a message that this has been successfully added to the registry, click Ok.

Back in the Command Prompt, copy and paste the entry below and hit enter to remove the custom plan.

powercfg.exe -delete cabb719c-fde8-4d7d-bc42-717de580c8ff

Close all windows and restart the notebook - you should hopefully now have just the 3 standard power schemes.

Regards,

DP-K

[maxpostal]

Thanks for the detailed instruction! It worked. Hello from Russia! 🙂

[DavidPK]

Hi,

You're welcome and glad it helped

Best wishes from the UK,

DP-K

[maxpostal]

One remark, it's worked on Windows 8 64-bit, i change first post.
Best Regards, Max! 

[DavidPK]

Hi,

Thanks for letting me know, I haven't tried this on Windows 8 so it's good to hear it works for this OS as well

All the best,

DP-K