Power settings began to change on their own

I have a Pavilion Elite HPE Desktop under Windows 7 Home Premium.

I served in a "Balanced" power setting where the display turns off after 10 minutes and the pc goes to sleep after 20 minutes. Recently, setting the power began to come back after a while (I think) and certainly at every start up to a "Balanced" framework in which case the display turns off after 15 minutes and the pc "Never" goes to sleep.

I tried all kinds of manual-reset and back up without being able to avoid cela the unwanted action. I searched the web long and settings of power changing by themselves seems to be quite a common problem that no one offers a solution. I hope through this forum to find an answer.

I'm starting to wonder if some piece of third party software interferes with the settings.

Hello

You're welcome and good to hear that you found the culprit.

All the best,

DP - K

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