Which power settings when not in any user account?

[Mickey Segal]

When someone has logged into a particular user account, Vista uses the power
settings specified in Control Panel's Power Options for that user. What
settings are used when all users have logged out and the screen with all the
user accounts is displayed?

Are the settings from some particular user account used then?

Or is there some set of general settings? If so, how do you control the
general settings?

 

[Darrell Gorter[MSFT]]

Hello Mickey,
Last person's active power scheme is used when no users are logged in, and
on initial boot
See this link
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/b/9/5b97017b-e28a-4bae-ba48-174cf47
d23cd/CPA075_WH06.ppt


Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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|> When someone has logged into a particular user account, Vista uses the
power
|> settings specified in Control Panel's Power Options for that user. What
|> settings are used when all users have logged out and the screen with all
the
|> user accounts is displayed?
|>
|> Are the settings from some particular user account used then?
|>
|> Or is there some set of general settings? If so, how do you control the
|> general settings?
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[Mickey Segal]

Thanks. This was a hard issue to search on since the relevant terms were so
common.

I notice in slides 8 and 9 in the PowerPoint presentation that sleep mode is
supposed to be more reliable on Vista. Many of us has experienced the
opposite, finding that computers sometimes fail to go into standby, as
detailed at:
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2007/06/coffee_break_wa.html (and
some even think they have situations in which the computer wakes up from
sleep with no user intervention).

On XP there was a "hive cleanup" patch that speeded up going into Standby
dramatically. Is there some similar fix for Vista?