Hi guys,
i found a solution, i tried 4 times on my laptop and it works.
This annoyance happens when you chance theme when you are in power saver plan.
Let's see how to fix it.
1 .Be sure you don't have an unsaved theme in the personalization window. In that case delete it.
2. Save your theme if you didn't do yet.
3. Switch to balanced power plan if you are using another plan.
4. Select Windows 7 and switch back to your theme then. Keep power options and personalization windows open.
5. Now change power plan to power saver
6. In personalization window -> window color and and disable trasparency. Click save changes. You can see that an unsaved theme has just been created and activated.
7. Select balanced power plan.
8. Activate your theme, delete the unsaved theme and close personalization window.
Now you can switch between power plans, and when you activate saver power plan trasparency will be turned off. Does it work?
I checked all the steps on my computer while i was writing these instructions, so it must work to you too!
There are just 2 bugs:
1. if you move to power saver plan, then back to balanced or high performance, and open personalization window, everything is allright, but if you open this window when you are in power saver plan, you will have a new unsaved theme activated. To delete it without
doing mistakes, switch to balanced power plan, activate your theme and delete the unsaved one. So the only way to don't have this unwanted unsaved theme is to open theme window when you are in a plan which is not power saver.
2. If you are in power saver and change theme you will have to do all the steps to make trasparency working fine again, so if you would change theme move to another power plan before doing.
They are two silly bugs which microsoft should fix, but i wont bet...
That's all. Hope it worked.
Bye
Thanks Skynet3D, works like a charm.
But this one didn't work, sorry Nicholas Li.
Hi,
Please understand that Windows Basic and Aero are different themes. The power related feature may have not this kind of function to switch between different
themes.
As I know, to save power, when the laptop is not plugged with the AC adapter or the battery is low, some functions will be disabled temporarily to help
the computer work longer. To test this, please restore the power plan to default and then just unplug the AC adapter and see how it works.
Restore power plan
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1.
Please go to “Control Panel – Power Options” and click the link “Change plan settings” link of your current power plan.
2.
On “Edit Plan Settings”, click “Restore default settings for this plan” and then click “Yes”.
3.
Go to “change advanced power settings”.
4.
On the “Advanced settings” window, click “change settings that are currently unavailable” if it exists. Then click “Restore plan
defaults” and click “Yes”. Then Click “OK” to save the settings and close this window.
5.
After the steps above, the Power Options are reset to default.
Thanks.
Nicholas Li - MSFT
