power options in windows7 not working

tammy66

i am running IE9 and windows 7 ultimate ,my power options have partially stopped working the monitor shuts down but the hard drive keeps runing i have tried diferent setting but still the same can anyone help?

Johnny_B_good

Found this for you:

There are several fixes that many of us have discovered. None of them always work. Sometimes they work the first time and sometimes they must be repeated several times. Sometimes they work when used in combination, but not as a single fix. I have always been able to fix it, but the problem always comes back and I have wasted many, many hours on this. It’s very frustrating, and I’m far from the only one. I’m sure MS could fix this with an update if we could just get them interested.
To help MS research a fix, here are all the “fixes” that I know of that help:
* From command prompt as administrator: powercfg –restoredefaultschemes then reboot.
* From command prompt as administrator: sfc /scannow then reboot
* Clean registry then reboot
* Do not allow the hard drive to turn off before entering sleep.
* ChkDsk
* Uninstalling APC PowerChute (UPS) and disconnecting USB connection.
* There are also some computer-specific things that seem to help, like disabling “Fast start” in Samsung. My machine is a custom with an Intel MB and doesn’t fit into any of those categories. I have another machine that is identical to the troubled machine that has never shown the problem The only significant difference between the two is that the troubled machine has a RAID 10 drive setup and the other does not.

Johnny_B_good

Have you used a registry cleaner recently? This could have caused the problem.