My experience with the windows powermanagement features is that it is a per-user setting, but the user needs administrator rights to change it.. I however never tried the powercfg command, but I assume it has the same 'restriction'. I have also seen situations where powermanagement settings are correctly set, but are not applied by Windows. This happens when a normal user has other settings than the administrator, the administrater was logged in, and afterwards the user logs in.. Then the powermanagement settings of the administrator sometimes stays active despite the fact that the user has diferent PM settings.. Bottom line: I found those settings to be completely undependable. Regards Robin From: Anders Nilsson <andersn at isy.liu.se> To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org Date: 16.03.2009 17:31 Subject: [wpkg-users] Power preferences I run the wpkg.js client from Windows XP startup script, which means wpkg runs as the system user (I think), and try to install the following self-made package: <package id="powerproperties" name="Power properties for monitor and standby" revision="3" reboot="false" priority="10"> <install cmd='powercfg /S "Home/Office Desk"' /> <install cmd='powercfg /X "Home/Office Desk" /monitor-timeout-ac 15' /> <install cmd='powercfg /X "Home/Office Desk" /standby-timeout-ac 240' /> <upgrade cmd='powercfg /S "Home/Office Desk"' /> <upgrade cmd='powercfg /X "Home/Office Desk" /monitor-timeout-ac 15' /> <upgrade cmd='powercfg /X "Home/Office Desk" /standby-timeout-ac 240' /> </package> The problem is that the settings don't stick, that is nothing concerning power properties as changed. The client wpkg log file thinks everything is OK and that the package is successfully installed (or upgraded when applicable). Running the very same commands logged in as Administrator things work just as expected. When nobody is logged on the monitor shuts down after 15 minutes and the system goes to standby in 4 hours. As far as I can see these power property settings is not a user preference, or is that my problem here? /Anders ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users -- Denk aan het milieu - is het nodig deze mail te printen? ** Email Disclaimer: ** This e-mail and the information it contains may be confidential, legally privileged and protected by law. Access by the intended recipient only is authorised. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from your system. Any review, distribution, reproduction, publication or other use of this e-mail by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/attachments/20090317/f07dad09/attachment.html> |