lenovo software update bug

PROBLEM:

1. Lenovo Power Manager stuck and memory leaking.
2. Fn-keys are inappropriate behavior.

EXPIRIENCE AND OPINION:

I’m updating Lenovo software manually. There were some recent published updates that I installed this morning. Lenovo Power Manager 1.51a and other packages in recent Lenovo software update are full of bugs. They are simply bad, maybe influenced by Vista: awful code (can’t find any other explanation for memory leak and the mess in the registry) and cool graphics. I can’t understand why do anybody needs this rubbish updates with no new features, no bugs fixed – just new useless GUI.

before - after

And THE NEW FEATURE IS:

Hey! People! Stop it! Why do we need this stupid aimless bar? There is no meaning to any of intermediate values on this bar. Why didn’t they do a small poll bar with two or more options as it was? And why, for God's sake, any update influence Fn-key functionability?
BTW those bugs were found and reported in the middle of Dec 2008 but nothing has been done since.

After digging for hours in Lenovo support pages and different forums the solution was found.

SOLUTION:

Power Manager bug fix via:

1. Close Power Manager.
2. Run regedit.exe
3. Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies and delete ALL the policies.
4. Open up a Power Manager. This action will create 4 default profiles when none exist. Don't worry about not being able to set them just yet.
5. Create any custom profiles that you want. Don't worry about not being able to set them.
   
6. Renumber (rename) ALL policies starting from 1.
7. Set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\CurrentPowerPolicy to an existing number.

Fn-keys separate update.