Power Settings

I tried to set my computer to hibernate and got an error message saying
...."process in use by another process." What gives and how do I fix it?

I have a VIAO laptop and when I recently updated I was
unable to utilize the power settings for my laptop -
nothing shows on the pull down menu. How do I fix this
new problem?

Thanks. Steve.

Did you go to the Sony website and get upgrade instructions? They have
detailed upgrade instructions which must be followed. I upgraded my VAIO
notebook, and everything works OK, including the power settings.

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Steve C. Ray
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"Steve C" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a VIAO laptop and when I recently updated I was
> unable to utilize the power settings for my laptop -
> nothing shows on the pull down menu. How do I fix this
> new problem?
>
> Thanks. Steve.

I cannot adjust my power settings anymore. I have a sony
laptop with xp home edition. I have my screensaver set to
go on in 5 mins. About 5 mins after the screensaver goes
on, the monitor shuts off. About 20 mins after that, the
whole computer goes on standby. I have gone under the
control panel and power options to try to change it.
However, when I go to power options I am not allowed to
click anything. Everything is gray so when I cannot click
to change the amount of time the monitor goes of or that
the computer goes into standby. There are also so no
longer any presaved power themes either. Is there any way
that I can somehow reset the power settings to where I am
able to change them what I want. As of right now all of
those boxes are just gray (as in not able to click on or
anything) and they are all empty so they don't even show
how many minutes each thing is set on. Please help me
with this if you can. Thank You.

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 19:20:34 -0800, "Nic" <shuggbear@aol.com> wrote:

>I cannot adjust my power settings anymore. I have a sony
>laptop with xp home edition. I have my screensaver set to
>go on in 5 mins. About 5 mins after the screensaver goes
>on, the monitor shuts off. About 20 mins after that, the
>whole computer goes on standby. I have gone under the
>control panel and power options to try to change it.
>However, when I go to power options I am not allowed to
>click anything. Everything is gray so when I cannot click
>to change the amount of time the monitor goes of or that
>the computer goes into standby. There are also so no
>longer any presaved power themes either. Is there any way
>that I can somehow reset the power settings to where I am
>able to change them what I want. As of right now all of
>those boxes are just gray (as in not able to click on or
>anything) and they are all empty so they don't even show
>how many minutes each thing is set on. Please help me
>with this if you can. Thank You.

Look at line 204 (right side) on this page:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Dave

Do you know if there are any other things I could do? I
tried this and it didn't do anything to fix it. If you
can help more at all please let me know. Thanks.

>-----Original Message-----
>On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 19:20:34 -0800, "Nic"

<shuggbear@aol.com> wrote:

>

>>I cannot adjust my power settings anymore. I have a

sony

>>laptop with xp home edition. I have my screensaver set

to

>>go on in 5 mins. About 5 mins after the screensaver

goes

>>on, the monitor shuts off. About 20 mins after that,

the

>>whole computer goes on standby. I have gone under the
>>control panel and power options to try to change it.
>>However, when I go to power options I am not allowed to
>>click anything. Everything is gray so when I cannot

click

>>to change the amount of time the monitor goes of or

that

>>the computer goes into standby. There are also so no
>>longer any presaved power themes either. Is there any

way

>>that I can somehow reset the power settings to where I

am

>>able to change them what I want. As of right now all of
>>those boxes are just gray (as in not able to click on

or

>>anything) and they are all empty so they don't even

show

>>how many minutes each thing is set on. Please help me
>>with this if you can. Thank You.

>Look at line 204 (right side) on this page:
>http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
>
>Dave
>.
>

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 00:57:44 -0800, "Nic" <shuggbear@aol.com> wrote:

>Do you know if there are any other things I could do? I
>tried this and it didn't do anything to fix it. If you
>can help more at all please let me know. Thanks.

TRy logging on in safe mode as the Administrator.
Can you adjust it now?

Dave