Removing power management options

[matt_cosmo]

ACPI BIOS, Windows 2000 Professional:

I have two power management issues I need answers to:

1) I need to prevent users from turning on hibernation support. (Is there a way to make the hibernation checkbox in the Power Options control panel disappear/grey-out?)

2) With an ACPI BIOS, users can change the behavior of the power button on their computer. Is there a way to set this to ALWAYS power down the computer (not allow the user to change to Standby or Hibernate)?

I still want to support Standby, but not through the power button (don't ask why I have to do this). Hence, I want to leave the BIOS in ACPI mode.
The BIOS controls don't provide any flexability on these issues--the Standby and Hibernation are either supported or they are not!

Is there a registry tweek that might fix this? Internally Windows (in the case of a non-power-compliant BIOS) can personalize the appearance of the Power Options control panel. Wish I knew how they did that.

Thanks.

Cosmo

[reghakr]

matt,

Use this setting to hide the System icon under Control Panel which controls
machine settings such as user profiles, environment variables and virtual
memory. To enable this option, go to:

HKEY_CURENT_USER\Control Panel\Don't Load
or
HKEY_USERS\<USERS PROFILE>\Control Panel\Don't Load

and edit/create the value "powercfg.cpl" (REG_SZ) and set the value equal to
"1" (without quotes) to hide the System icon, or delete the value to enable the icon.

reghakr

[matt_cosmo]

Interesting. Good thought. However, I don't want to eliminate ALL of the power options--I still want the user to be able to set the time until hard drives spin down, monitor is shut off, and system goes into standby.

All I want to eliminate is control over hibernation (I don't EVER want to use it), and control over the use of the system power switch (I always want it to shut down the computer).

Any ideas? Thanks reghakr for your input.

Thanks.

Cosmo

[Mosaic1]

There's a fre program called Resource Hacker. You can open the Powercfg.cpl in it and modify the Dialog box. Save the original file someplace safe in case of a problem.
<a target="_blank" href=http://rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker>http://rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker</a>

[matt_cosmo]

That is quite possibly the COOLEST application I have ever seen. That ought to take care of it--at least until Windows decides that it needs to revert this file back to it's original state (at the oddest time).

Does anybody know if there are any other ways for a user to manipulate standby and/or hibernation options other than through the Power Options dialogs?

Thanks again.

Cosmo

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by matt_cosmo on 12/10/01 20:35.</FONT></P>