Re: Power Management GPO?

Power management settings are evil. Like a few other settings it appears that the registry is just where they get stored. From my fiddling it appears that you can change the registry setting but the GUI setting doesn't change until next startup, or sometimes even ever. It appears that the power management API probably retrieves the configured values from here during system startup then stores them in memory or somewhere else because now matter how much manual modification I did, I could never get settings to stick, so here is my suggestion:

Use POWERCFG. If you simply want to set the settings once, write a script that makes the changes and the drops in a registry flag to indicate the state so that it doesn't keep running all the time. If you want to set the settings for different times of the day as suggested by another poster, then put in a scheduled task running as SYSTEM that changes the settings based on the time of day. Adding the scheduled task can also be scripted in a startup script using schtaks.exe.

Good luck.
Cheers,
Jeremy.
"Linn Kubler" <lkubler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ejtsGPLnHHA.4516@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi All,

I'm trying to figure out how to set the power settings of the computers in my organization. They are almost all Windows XP Pros, a couple Windows 2000 Pro but I'm not going to worry about them right now.

I know that Microsoft set this up so that a standard User does not have rights to change the power settings and so far I have not been able to find a way to set them globally.

I have been looking at EZ GPO from Terranovum but it only gets me part way there. There are a couple settings that it doesn't address. What do you folks do, how do you handle this... or don't you?

EZ GPO sets the time outs for the User monitor timeout, System standby timeout and Hibernation timeout, but what about the other settings? Hard Disk timeout, Prompt for password when computer resumes from standby, When I press the power button on my computer and Hibernate enable/disable? How can I go about setting those options?

Oh, this is an active domain network with Windows 2003 Server domain controllers.

Thanks in advance,
Linn



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