rolling out "monitor turn off" to 500 pc's

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i am trying to setup 500 pc's to turn off the monitors (in power options)
after 30 mins of non usage.

is there a regkey or file that can be sent to each machine via script that
will do this or is a deskside visit required to each machine?
 
i am trying to setup 500 pc's to turn off the monitors (in power
options) after 30 mins of non usage.

is there a regkey or file that can be sent to each machine via script
that will do this or is a deskside visit required to each machine?
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I haven't actually tried this, but this may give you some ideas:

Look under the keys:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\PowerCfg
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg

There is a setting that selects which powerpolicy is to be used. Lower
down there are the powerpolicies (including the one selected above).
There is a big long binary number in there that sets things like the
timeout till screen off, etc.

I would guess that the .DEFAULT is for when no one is logged on, and the
CURRENT_USER sets what happens when that user is logged on. Also, a lot
of settings in .DEFAULT get copied to new user profiles when they are
created - unless the profiles are coming from a domain, in which case you
could put the settings into the domain profile or perhaps use group
policies to set things.

You may have to tinker with the settings on one machine until you find
which parts of the settings in the registry are important to you - then
you can possibly export the settings to a reg file or whatever.
 
yes i found those but didnt know how to set them and exporting them from a
computer i preset didnt work - thanks for the help
 
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