Problem with power plans not showing at all

Hi. Had a bad computer day and did a windows 10 reset. After the reset and some updates, when I go to control panel/system and security/power options, I see this:



It does not show the balanced/recommended plan I'm on and should normally show. If I click on create a power plan, it then shows this:



And if I try and create a plan it shows this:





I ran an sfc scan and also did dism restore health and no problems found or fixed. Also did power trouble shooting.

I then tried to do a windows 10 repair install twice with media creation tool but I believe it did not complete correctly because the first time I had secure boot enabled and the second time windows may not have been fully updated. In both cases near the end the final part looked different then what Brink's tutorial showed. it looked like the usual update instead of an upgrade with the big circle.

So I'm considering now doing a repair install a third time with secure boot disabled and now laptop updated to v1709 16299.251. I'm hoping that will work.

I'm wondering though, before I spend another hour or two doing this, is there another simpler fix I could try?

Thanks in advance.

Hi, at this point you might want to try
- checking your disk
- clean installing Win 10
Clean Install Windows 10 Windows 10 Tutorials

Good- so no hardware issues hopefully.

Now consolidate what you have by creating a base disk image (e.g. Macrium Reflect (free) + external storage for disk image sets).
Image all the partitions comprising Windows (it's a built in option).
Then keep your image set up to date by periodically creating a differential image (smaller, faster).

Then if sthg goes wrong- even a disk failure- you can recover to a previous working state without doing a clean install.

Your second scenario is sometimes called an "in-place repair upgrade" or an "upgrade repair install." It's described in this excellent TenForums tutorial: Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade. Basically, it replaces the OS files, rebuilds the registry, and restores some (but not all) preferences and settings to their defaults, but leaves already-installed applications and all user files on the %Homedrive% volume (usually C: on most Windows installs).
HTH,
--Ed--

AFAIK, drivers do get replaced when you perform an in-place upgrade install. Why do I say this? Because you can look in the Reliability History for your PC on the day when the upgrade install occurred, and see for yourself that ALL of the DRIVERS get installed. Here's a representative snippet thereof:


As you can see, there's a huge honkin' list of drivers on what is "Day 1" for that most recent install on my production PC, on which I apparently made such an install on February 22, 2018. It may therefore just be the case that Windows Update has gotten "smarter" about recognizing and finding drivers for your PC.
HTH,
--Ed--