Cannot deploy change to power management settings in Windows 2000

[jsmiff]

I've run into a bit of a brick wall trying to change the power
management settings remotely for a fleet of Windows 2000 machines. On
our WinXP boxes, powercfg.exe works like a charm, but in Win2K, it's
not working - the changes made via commandline act as if they were
never received. I realize powercfg.exe is unsupported on Win2K, but
figured i'd give it a try anyway.

So far, I've tried updating the Control
Panel\PowerCfg\CurrentPowerPolicy registry setting - it shows the
change in the PowerCfg.cpl applet, but the monitor doesn't reflect the
actual change (currently the machines are set to Never / Never / Never
and I'm trying to change to 15 / never / never - from profile 0
"Home/Office Desk" to 4 "Minimal Power Management")... instead of the
monitor shutting off after 15 minutes, the screensave shows up and the
monitor never turns off - I've gone so far as to wait an hour to see if
it shuts off, but it doesn't.

Anybody know of a way to do this with Group Policy or some other method
since both powercfg.exe and updating the registry are not working for
me?

Or is there something I'm neglecting when changing the PowerCfg setting
in the user's registry?

Help!

 

[myweb]

Hello (e-mail address removed),

We are using this way with a loginscript entry with KIX.
writevalue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Powercfg", "CurrentPowerPolicy",
"2", "REG_SZ")

With the value from 0-5 can you configure the different power schemes (Deskptop,
Presentation etc.) So try it out. KIX you can find at:
http://www.kixtart.org/


Best regards

myweb
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