Power management

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Michael Dahl

Hi there

We have a domain with around 1000 PC's, all users are "normal users", and
they don't have access to the power management settings in Windows XP, now
after upgrading some to XP sp2, the power management has been turned on, how
to turn that off again with out having to give the users administravive
rights on thet PC's, and also without having to go around to 1000 PCs?

- Regards

Michael Dahl
 
Michael Dahl said:
Hi there

We have a domain with around 1000 PC's, all users are "normal users", and
they don't have access to the power management settings in Windows XP, now
after upgrading some to XP sp2, the power management has been turned on,
how to turn that off again with out having to give the users
administravive rights on thet PC's, and also without having to go around
to 1000 PCs?

- Regards

Michael Dahl
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Not having done that myself, but I would opt for a customized GPO, to be
associated with those PC's (possibly at the domain level).
The registry holds the power configuration in the key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg, where the valuename
CurrentPowerPolicy holds a value pointing to one of the Power schemes in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies.
The 'numbered' keys in there corrspond to the choices you have in the GUI.
If none of them is adequate, you can always (on a test system) 'roll your
own' and see how that gets stored.
Then using that information you build your GPO (ie. customized .adm file to
be loaded into the GPO) and deploy it for your users.
There are several .adm-building tools to be found on the net, that can ease
the pain of creating the correct syntax for the .adm file.
(Of course, symply studying an existing one and by analogy creating a new
one with notepad (cut/paste) will also work.)

hth

george
 
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