Power button setting in Windows XP!

Ardrias · Oct 5, 2005

I'm having a bit of an odd problem, altho not that big. It only started to annoy me at work earlier today, when I was remoting one machine, upgrading various clients and whatnot. Then suddenly, the machine goes into suspend. This was caused by some dumbfuck (pardon) pushing the power button because he saw the cursor moving by itself.... Now, I should have paid more attention when rolling out my workstations, but as I havent, I need to make changes post-installation. There's a setting under power options for what the powerbutton actually does. It doing nothing is well sweet. If someone decides to kill it, I can still WOL it when power resumes. Something I cant do when it's suspended. The problem however lies in finding where Windows stores that certain value, and I've been searching for hours to no avail. The thing that turns up everywhere is how to change between the different modes, Always on, mobile etc. It has to store that damn powerbutton somewhere as well, be it in registry or file. Really do not want to re-image all my workstations.... Any help appreciated

Edit: Why cant I add blank lines between to add readability anymore?

Clown · Oct 5, 2005

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Clown · Oct 5, 2005

Fixed

WPKenny · Oct 6, 2005

Ardrias said:
I'm having a bit of an odd problem, altho not that big. It only started to annoy me at work earlier today, when I was remoting one machine, upgrading various clients and whatnot. Then suddenly, the machine goes into suspend. This was caused by some dumbfuck (pardon) pushing the power button because he saw the cursor moving by itself.... Now, I should have paid more attention when rolling out my workstations, but as I havent, I need to make changes post-installation. There's a setting under power options for what the powerbutton actually does. It doing nothing is well sweet. If someone decides to kill it, I can still WOL it when power resumes. Something I cant do when it's suspended. The problem however lies in finding where Windows stores that certain value, and I've been searching for hours to no avail. The thing that turns up everywhere is how to change between the different modes, Always on, mobile etc. It has to store that damn powerbutton somewhere as well, be it in registry or file. Really do not want to re-image all my workstations.... Any help appreciated Edit: Why cant I add blank lines between to add readability anymore?

I thought it was a BIOS thing.

Ardrias · Oct 6, 2005

Well in BIOS you cant do more than enable or disable the function.

Also I have no means of changing BIOS settings remote on ~800 machines. Since I can manually set it in Windows, the value has to be stored somewhere since Windows doesnt write to BIOS

xane · Oct 6, 2005

Its under Control Panel -> Power Options -> Advanced.

Also note, you need a machine capable of the minimum power functions, and sometimes the power button setting in BIOS needs to be changed, it's something like "4 secs off".

Ardrias · Oct 6, 2005

Yeah I know where to set it manually, thing is thats not what I want to do...

With the setting in windows to do nothing, I can press the button and noting happens. Holding it for 4 seconds does what it's supposed to do, shut off.
I do NOT want the suspend mode to be available in any way. Only on or off.

This is how I want it, but I want to push it with a regkey as opposed to re-image all workstations with only that setting changed.

Wonder if it cleared things up by me typing the same thing again...

Guest · Oct 10, 2005

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

Ardrias · Oct 10, 2005

That key only seems to change the different modes, as in Home, always on, etc. Not what the power button does!

Power button setting in Windows XP!

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