Hey everyone,

Thanks in advance for any help.

My Windows Vista isn't letting me adjust my power settings.


Here is what the problem:

1. I click the battery icon in the bottom right of the start bar. Then I click "More Power Options"

2. On the left panel of Power Options window, I click "Choose when to turn off the display"

My computer tells me "Your power plan information isn't available" with a red X next to it.

The same thing happens when I try to adjust any other power setting as well.

3. I click on the "Why can't Windows retrieve this information?" and it says stuff about my system administrator making changes, and that doesn't apply to me. I am the only user of the computer and my account is the administrator. I've never tinkered with any of these files to my memory.

It also says "Some of your power management settings, or the registry keys that are associated with those settings, have been deleted or corrupted. For more information, contact your system administrator." But I am the only administrator of this computer and the nice people at Microsoft never instructed me about this when I bought my computer.



I've done a SFC scan and it said "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations."

I've also tried searching for an answer on other forums but I either don't understand the solutions, which usually involve registry edits...or the problems I've found aren't exactly on target and involve people who did system restores.

I also installed uniblue registry booster from some site and it did a search and told me I had lots of registry errors but of course it asked to pay. I mentioned it on the Microsoft forums and people told me that's a scam. Hopefully I didn't make the problem worse...

How can I fix this? All I want to do is edit the power settings of my computer. Thanks for any and all help.

Thanks,

I am pretty much 100% sure I did. I got the advice to even go to the webpage that had the advertisement to download the uniblue registry booster 6 hours ago, and I restored to a point 10 hours ago. Thanks again.

Any advice or solutions on this power settings thing?

Thanks, Rich. I followed that tutorial and it did not work. This is frustrating!

Seems as if you could have a corrupt user profile.
The way to correct that would be to make a new account
and give it admin rights.
You could also try it first to see if your power options work in the new
account. If so then that is your problem.

One other thing you can try before all that is boot into safe mode.
see if it works there.

Jimmy

Well, I created a new user for my computer. Same problem, same message that I can't change any settings. Any further advice? Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.

I do not have anymore ideas.
Sorry I can not help any further.
I am at a loss just like you.
You could try the link that richc46 gave you
in the new account.

Sorry again I could not be of more help.

Jimmy