Problem when changing power plans; changes won't take effect immediate

[TheRene]

Hi,

Straight to buisness: When I change power plans, let's say from "Power saver" to "Balanced" the changes does not take affect immediately. Any ideas?

Background:

I have just started using the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc), and these are the following changes I have made, and nothing else:

• "Hide the notification area"
• "Turn off all balloon notifications"

After this the sympons to the aforementioned problem occurred.


So my initial thoughts are that when I created a shortcut to <Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options>, the changes won't take affect immediately. Before I used to just right-click the power icon in the notification area, but as mentioned, I have hidden the notification area, so I can no longer do this.


I have also tried the following guide to create power plan shortcuts:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/21990-power-plan-create-shortcut-change-power-plan.html


That does not work either, so I'm stumped...only way to make the changes (for instance from "Power saver" to "Balanced") is to either reboot or log off-log on.

 

[Dwarf]

There are some system changes that you can make which can take effect immediately, some which require the user to log off and back on again, and some require a reboot. If in doubt, a reboot is probably the best option.

 

[TheRene]

There are some system changes that you can make which can take effect immediately, some which require the user to log off and back on again, and some require a reboot. If in doubt, a reboot is probably the best option.

Ok, that makes sense, however: the reboot is very annoying, because of the reasons one would use the ability to change power plans from a state from "non-sleep" to "sleep" (for instance when watching a movie, and when the movie is finished, the computer goes to sleep). Also, this worked before, so why do you think a reboot is the best option, when the method I previously had was as it should be; working?