Hello Ron,
How are you creating and saving the power scheme?
Are you using powercfg.exe?  
Are you an administrator?
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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<I'm running WindowsXP SP2 on a Dell Dimension 4600, and when I attempt to
<create a new power scheme, save it, and recall that scheme, it doesn't
appear
<in the list of saved schemes. Any help would be appreciated.
<Ron Sheets
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