Power Options: Setting a default for all users locally.

Nope, want to know how to do it w/o using the DC.

Or, actually, part of the previous question.  Accepted an answer to half the problem previously.  Wanted to give credit, but wanted to know this too.

So you want to do this without the user needing to log onto a domain? I may not be understanding completely, but you could have the system add this registry setting on bootup (maybe stick the command to execute a abtch file in the "run" section of HKLM.

The registry settings would be:
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\PowerCfg]
"CurrentPowerPolicy"="1"

Where CurrentPowerPolicy can equal:
0 - Home/Office desktop
1 - Portable/Laptop computer
2 - Monitor on for presentations
3 - Network computer (no Wake-on-LAN)
4 - Optimized for high performance
5 - Optimized for power saving

If you are looking for something else then let me know.

How to do the power options locally on each system?

Start-Settings, Control Panel - Power Options -- now here are your choices --

1. If a desktop, set power scheme to always on, and everything below to "never" and in hibernation, turn it off.

2.  If a laptop, set setting so you can squeeze 1 hour plus out of a battery.

Reason for 1?  The concept that the hard disk needs to power down, to save it, is an outdated idea.  Once a HDD is up to spinning, almost no wear to leave it that way. Use the rule that if a person is gone from the PC for more than 2-3 hours, shut it off, else, leave it running full steam.  Many HDDs , in particular Seagate, don't power up if you power them done -- big app failure rate.  And the idea that a monitor is "saved" by a screen saver is also an outdated idea of old VGA monitors.  If they are gone, then sure, blank the screen, but any image is as bad ("good"?) as any other image.

Reason for 2?  On full power, most battery-run laptops are lucky to get 15 munitues up time.

You can argue all you want against this, doesn't bother me.  That's what a big US corp concluded after extensive testing of it.  They decided, power managment on desktops is an arcahic idea.

Out of the box, the default settings are to put the machine into Hibernation and put the hard drive to sleep and go into system standby.

I don't want the machine to ever go to sleep.  I want the default setting to be "Always On".

I've changed this setting under 1 ID, logged off and logged in w/ a different ID.  Changing the settings for 1 user does not seem to apply to all users.

I want a fix for this.  I got one on my previous ? that I can do to the DC using an add-in from Energystar:

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_pm_ez_gpo&layout=print

I want to find one that I can do w/o relying on the AD.  I was wondering if there was a setting I was missing somewhere to do this.

The above registry entry that I posted should change the setting for all users on the machine.

Basically, you have to log into ALL USERS on the system, one at a time, and make the changes.  Yes you can reassign users to groups, but by the time you do this, you could have logged in as each user profile and mafe the changes directly.

T and T

"you could have the system add this registry setting on bootup (maybe stick the command to execute a abtch file in the "run" section of HKLM."

I'm not to familiar with editing the Reg.  Can you give me detailed explanation of how to do this?  Sounds like what I am looking for.
Doing this user by user is what I'm trying to avoid.

Thanks!

<< Doing this user by user is what I'm trying to avoid. >>

You can't unless it is all users.  All registry setting are user specific for user preferences.  but I'll let T&T explain how to do the reg. stuff.  Good luck ....

Thanks SciWriter.

I meant doing manually user by user.  Script for Reg is good.

Good hunting, T&T.  However, I think I have lost something in this thread -- why can't you just get each user to login to their computer and set the power up the way you want it?  Once done, always done, right?  Or are there a raft of people using each computer?  Seems to me, a one-time "power event" throughout the office will do the job, and if anyone changes it, take away their coffee break.  No?

I have asked everyone to change their settings, but I manage the office remotely and if the last user to log on doesn't edit the settings (people have a main computer, but there are some users that jump around a lot) I can't get to the machine if it goes to sleep.  

Anyways, thanks for all the help guys.  I learned a lot.  I'm going to try the script when I get a chance, but I'm also going to take a look in the reg to see what sciwriter was talking about.

stc13

I'll stay here if any more Q/s