Hello. I messed up upgrading and then deleting my HD's Ubuntu partition. XP wouldn't boot and I had to run fixmbr, bootcfg /rebuild and fixboot from the XP bootCD recovery prompt. After I finally got XP to boot again, the Power Management had gone nuts. Here are the problems: - Shutting down the computer the icons "Standby" - "Shutdown" - "Restart" have changed to "Hibernate" - "Shutdown" - "Restart". - Pressing the physical power switch that used to work as "Shutdown" now turns the power off immediately without saving anything. - Just as the computer is shutting down, the text "It's now safe to switch off the computer." (or something like that) appears and I have to press the power switch for it to shutdown. - I can't find any Power Management options to eg change the way the physical power switch acts. - When I pull off the power cord, it neither reduces screen brightness nor does the "External" symbol change to display the remaining power of the battery like it should. (Running on laptop) Hopefully someone got a hold on that.. thanks in advance.
on my laptop if i right click and press properties it brings me into the display settings and from there i can turn hibernate off and mess about with the power&display
Well I tried to disable hibernation and the icon changed to "Standby", but it's all grey and unusable. It seems Standby can't be used anymore. Maybe the cause of the use of Safe Mode which doesn't support Standby?
If it helps, I'm not a complete newbie. I tried safe mode at first, but the problems still exist in normal mode. I reckon this is a registry issue but can't tell for sure...
