Computer-specific power settings

[Guest]

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

 

[george]

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]

George,

Thanks for the reply. I thought about trying this, but haven't found the
time to give it a go. I suppose I'd have to specify seperate startup
scripts in Group Policy for an OU dedicated to laptops and an OU dedicated
to desktops.

I'll give it a try and reply back with the results. It might be a little
while though.

Thanks,
Jerry

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

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