...However if I change these settings, either individually or to another scheme, when I run the Logon file XX and then reopen the Power Settings Screen, the Scheme name is P1, but the settings will remain as I last left them.
I ran your process exactly as you described (except applying the reg file at logon) and observed the same problem you are having. As I suspected when suggesting that you do an Explorer stop/start for the settings to take effect, changing them in the registry is not enough to change them in the current user environment. Unfortunately, the solution required more than an Explorer stop/start...I had to log off completely at the point in your process I have marked with and XX (sans applying the reg file). Then the reg file settings I loaded just prior to the log off/on took effect and the manually changed settings were gone.
Something in Windows will have to be restarted for the settings in the registry to be reloaded. It doesn't matter that they are correct in the registry. The settings reported in the power control applet reflect what has been loaded into the user environment, not what is currently in the registry.
I don't know enough about the core processes of Windows to know what to suggest what needs a restart or reload. If an Explorer reload won't do it, I'm at a loss.
Josh
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