Re: Computer-specific power settings
From: george (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/18/05
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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:21:00 +0100
Not that I have done this, but the poweroptions are kept in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg
with a valuename of CurrentPowerPolicy and a stringvalue corresponding to
the respective subkeys in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies )0, 1, 2, etc.)
I would imagine you could try and have a user logon script assigned (through
GPO) that executes regedit /s <regfile>
where regfile would simply contain:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg]
"CurrentPowerPolicy"="1"
with the value of the powerscheme you want.
Sounds like a plan?
:-))
George
"Jerry" <Jerry@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3207A92C-0622-4FA1-935D-70A21A8E0581@microsoft.com...
> I am trying to setup the power settings on desktops and laptops for my
> organization. The desktops have the default power schemes that come with
> Windows XP Pro, and the laptops have the default schemes plus a Toshiba
> Power Saver scheme, which links to a Toshiba power management application.
> This Toshiba application gives detailed settings for screen brightness and
> CPU speed that would be nice to take advantage of. The problem I have is
> that I will have users that need to be able to logon to desktops and
> laptops. I'd like to configure things so that when a user logs on to a
> desktop, they get the Home/Office scheme, and when they log on to a
> laptop,
> they get the Toshiba Power Saver scheme. However, since the power
> settings
> appear to be user-specific, I'm not sure if it's possible to make this
> happen.
> Two acceptable solutions would be:
> 1) Be able to setup computer-specific settings so that all users that
> login
> to the computer would get the same power settings.
> I was hoping this could be done through Group Policy, but I don't see
> anything about it in the default templates. Of course, I would be
> satisfied
> if there were a setting on the computer or a registry change that would
> accomplish the same task.
> 2) Setup something that would change the setting for the user as
> appropriate
> depending on whether they were logging on to a desktop or laptop.
> I would think this could be done through scripting or possibly Group
> Policy, but I also haven't seen anything along these lines.
>
> My last ditch solution would be to dump the Toshiba settings and just
> setup
> the Home/Office scheme to be used on all computers.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this situation? Any suggestions? As
> always, any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Jerry
>
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