Change All User Power Settings Help

[itguy22]

Good morning all, forgive me if I am being a bit dim.

 

Is it possible to universally change all power settings (for example make the computer stay on all the time) for all users on a Windows XP Profesional.

 

Cheers,

Itguy22

[witch]

Depends what server you have. You can do it (I think) in 2008 using policies and preferences but I am not sure in earlier versions

[box_l]

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/48986-how-disable-power-settings-all-users.html

 

BoX

[soveryapt]

I use a couple of reg entries placed at startup and login via GPO that seem to do the trick .. the only thing is hoping that the computers have a standard set up in the Power Config so that the number in the reg entries matches up to the Always On setting:

 

Startup:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\PowerCfg]
"CurrentPowerPolicy"="3"

 

Login:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg]
"CurrentPowerPolicy"="3"

 

That may (or may not) be of some use ..

[Guest TheLibrarian]

I didn't ever get round to trying this, however it is supposed to work.

 

EZ GPO : ENERGY STAR

[chazzy2501]

I use the EZ Energy star power software which for XP machines works great.

 

But even if your on a 2000/2003 domain as long as you have a vista workstation you can set power preferences using the client side extensions for your vista and xp users.