Solved No Power Option in Windows 8...

Hello,

I recently upgraded to Windows 8 (64-bit) and noticed I don't have power options available. I own an HP Pavilion DV7, usually when I leave the laptop to do something over night, I go into "Choose what closing the lid does" and I get the error saying my power plan info is not available. Whenever I try to create a powerplan it tells me the same thing, but when I hit next, it tells me it can't find the file specified. Any ideas on how to fix this? I have no power options at the moment. I tried resetting to defaults using cmd, rebooted, and the only power option I had (Razer Gamebooster) was gone, and had nothing after. Thanks for the help.

Hello Papaniz,

It sounds like a bad upgrade possibly from something incompatible from the previous OS.

You might consider refreshing or resetting Windows 8.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks Shawn, did a refresh and my power options are here.

You're most welcome. Great news.

Brink said:

You're most welcome. Great news.

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Is there no alternative. The last time I did a refresh or reset I lost so much I didn't want to. I'm talking about the option that is supposed to be much less than a factory reset. These options seem drastic. Is there no registry tweak?

Hello Jack,

You could do a System Restore using a restore point before the issue happened, or see if a SFC /SCANNOW command may help.

Considering that this was an upgrade installation, it was most likely only going to be fixed with a refresh.

Brink said:

Hello Jack,
You could do a System Restore using a restore point before the issue happened, or see if a SFC /SCANNOW command may help. Considering that this was an upgrade installation, it was most likely only going to be fixed with a refresh.

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Thanks for taking the time. I did just that. And the Power Options did come back. So resolved thankfully. I only lost 2 programs and they might be suspect? So 1 was Chrome browser and it's re-installed. The other is OpenOffice. I have yet to install it but I will check for awhile after each installation to make sure it does not go away. Thanks again! Jack ":-D

You're welcome Jack.