Thursday, October 14, 2010

How To: Configure a Windows 7 power scheme for distribution

Need to create a standardized power configuration for Windows 7 PCs, but are not able to use Group Policy?  Look to the command line to export and import power settings for Windows 7 systems!

Open a command prompt and run ‘powercfg /?’ to get some of the details.

 

The options most useful for this problem are

  • powercfg –l
  • powercfg –export c:\file.pow {guid}
  • powercfg –import c:\file.pow