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Windows 8.1 Power Plan
dandl
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July 9, 2015 - 12:04 am
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I am unable to change my Power Plan settings in W8.1. Does anybody have any idea what is going on and how to correct this issue?
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Jim Hillier
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Daniel, have you checked to make sure the services connected with RPC are running?

Open Services and look for any items associated with "Remote Procedure Call", make sure they are enabled.

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Hii Jim
these are the only two services I have found pertaining to RPC. I have also ran the sfc /scannow and it reported some corrupted files that it couldn't fix. I couldn't make to much sense out of the CBS Log file.
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Yep, that’s the usual two RPC services Daniel.

If sfc /scannow is reporting file corruptions, I suggest you run the following dism command in an elevated command prompt:

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

This will compare local files to an online image and, hopefully, repair the corruptions.

If the dism command reports that it has repaired corruptions, I suggest you reboot the computer and run sfc /scannow again to make sure.

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Hi Jim
OK, I ran the Dism command and reran sfc /scannow and everthing was good. I finally found a link to the http://www.eightforums.com that had some info on this issue. All I had to to was download and run a Power Registry Key and this restored my Power Plan options. The RPC server was unavailable because their was no Power Plans to report. This is what I have when I run powercfg /L

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Okay Daniel, glad to hear all is now well. What I don't understand however, is how the registry items relating to power plans were missing, deleted or corrupted in the first place. Was this after a re-install or are you using some kind of registry cleaner?

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I have no idea when or how this happened. I have checked the Power Schemes registry key in W10 and they both have the same GUID. I probably could have copied those keys to a usb stick and copied them into the W8.1 registry.
I guess you might say this was a registry issue but it is just misleading as for as the error code was saying.
Thanks for your help I have enjoyed playing detective with you. Daniel.

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