2006
07.22
07.22
Show me a sysadmin that likes to do the same thing 10 times in a row by hand and I’ll show you the sweater I got from Tony Blair. So in that vain, here is a batch file you can run from your login scripts that will automatically configure desktop and laptop power profiles in windows. Why this isn’t included in Group Policy Management I do not know, but since every copy of Windows XP sp2 has the powercfg.exe program this should be close enough to a sure thing. If you need to tweak the settings just look here for an explanation of the switches.
Desktops
@echo off cls :Creates a desktop power profile :QUERY powercfg.exe /Q cust_desktop IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO QUIT IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO DELETE :DELETE powercfg.exe /D OLDPROFILE :CREATE powercfg.exe /C cust_desktop :ADJUST powercfg.exe /X cust_desktop /monitor-timeout-ac 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_desktop /monitor-timeout-dc 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_desktop /disk-timeout-ac 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_desktop /disk-timeout-dc 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_desktop /standby-timeout-ac 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_desktop /standby-timeout-dc 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_desktop /hibernate-timeout-ac 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_desktop /hibernate-timeout-dc 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_desktop /processor-throttle-ac NONE powercfg.exe /X cust_desktop /processor-throttle-dc NONE :GLOBAL powercfg.exe /G off /OPTION BATTERYICON powercfg.exe /G off /OPTION RESUMEPASSWORD :ACTIVATE powercfg.exe /S cust_desktop :QUIT @cls exit
Laptops
@echo off cls :Creates a laptop power profile :QUERY powercfg.exe /Q cust_laptop IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO QUIT IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO DELETE :DELETE powercfg.exe /D OLDPROFILE :CREATE powercfg.exe /C cust_laptop :ADJUST powercfg.exe /X cust_laptop /monitor-timeout-ac 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_laptop /monitor-timeout-dc 15 powercfg.exe /X cust_laptop /disk-timeout-ac 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_laptop /disk-timeout-dc 30 powercfg.exe /X cust_laptop /standby-timeout-ac 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_laptop /standby-timeout-dc 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_laptop /hibernate-timeout-ac 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_laptop /hibernate-timeout-dc 0 powercfg.exe /X cust_laptop /processor-throttle-ac NONE powercfg.exe /X cust_laptop /processor-throttle-dc NONE :GLOBAL powercfg.exe /G on /OPTION BATTERYICON powercfg.exe /G off /OPTION RESUMEPASSWORD :ACTIVATE powercfg.exe /S cust_laptop :QUIT @cls exit
