Registry values for power schemes

[Antonios Karidas]

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

 

[John John]

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

 

[Antonios Karidas]

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

 

[John John]

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.

John