Registry values for power schemes

Hello all

I want to configure globally the details for specific power scheme for my
workstations. Are there any specific registry values about it that I can
use?

Thanks Antonios

It's in the HKEY_USERS and hence in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER child. You
would have to change it at each user SID, which is not very practical so
push it instead to the User child key when the users logon.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\CurrentPowerPolicy

Possible values set here are: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 as from the PowerPolicies
subkey.

There might be a problem changing the values as you need Administrator
privileges or have to impersonate to change the values.

Granting users Full Control permissions on:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls
Folder\PowerCfg\GlobalPowerPolicy

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls
Folder\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

Will allow them to change the Power Options without Administrator
privileges.

John

Thanks but I have found these entries. What I actually need is to set the
more detailed ones. Like after how many minutes the monitor will be turned
off and things like that. Are there any entries in the registry for that?

Thanks antonios

These are stored at the Policies REG_BINARY value in the PowerPolicies
keys at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

I don't know how to edit the binary values to change these time options.
Change the values via the Control Panel Power Options on one computer
then export the resulting key and binary values to other machines.

[brycenesbitt]

You'll want the Microsoft command line tool "powercfg.exe", as documented here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324347
Now the trick would be figuring out how to run that as an Admin, and affect a user's power configuration. The best you can do easily is get the user to run powercfg.exe as a script.

[Gentleheart]

You might want to check out this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/915160
titled: How to use Powercfg.exe to create a Group Policy object for power schemes in Windows XP

What I dont understand is why M$ could not make this as a standard policy in an .ADM file.
Also I don't understand why one cant just put
powercfg.exe /change "always on" /monitor-timeout-ac 20
powercfg.exe /SETACTIVE "always on"
in the login script.

Got a couple of new workstations that shutdown on the logon screen... never had this problem before. Somehow this is a new problem, never had this before in 6 years installing MANY XP-machines.
Ow well... new day same shit...

[spenstar]

Hi John, I am interested in doing what you have posted way above in regards to making all users have the ability to have the ability to change their power scheme ... I just don't know what values to change to what in the regedit (in what you listed above)...can you give more detail to that?

Thanks.