Re: Windows XP power management settings at logon?

From: +-J (bitbucket_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:19:08 +1000

"ToasterKing" <jazzyogurt@hotmail.com> wrote:

| We have about 100 HP Compaq d530s small profile workstations we are
| setting up for use in a business environment. They are preset from
| the factory to go into standby after 15 minutes of inactivity. We
| don't want this to happen. The power management settings in Windows
| XP are per-user, so any new user created will get the default power
| settings even if the user doesn't have access to change them.
|
| Our fix was to replace the NTUSER.DAT files on the systems for
| "Default User" and "All Users" with another compiled NTUSER.DAT file
| which has different power settings, so that any new users created will
| inherit its properties. We also have been changing the values in the
| registry for Default User and Current User via script. We changed the
| power profile in
| HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\0\Policies
| and then updated
| HKEY-USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\PowerCfg\CurrentPowerPolicy
| to point to policy 0.
| We did the same for the current user.
|
| I expected changing power settings for the default user to affect the
| Windows logon prompt, but our systems still fall into standby mode
| after 15 minutes of inactivity while sitting at the logon prompt. How
| can I fix this??
| We're using the systems on a domain and using the classic logon
| prompt.
|
| Thanks

 How about here...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel 

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Jan

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