Hi John, I have not done this myself, but I know it is not possible to manage via a simple ADM file because the settings are buried in binary records. However, I have the following note from Mathieu CHATEAU who answered a similar question here last year:- -Install a small Msi to all computers, EZ-GPO.msi -Use the ADM from EZ-GPO Everything is here: http://www.terranovum.com/projects/energystar/index.html You will need to deploy the GPO FIRST, and then deploy the small MSI. If you do not do so, you will have to reboot computers. The MSI install an NT Service that reads the GPO setting on start Best of luck Alan Cuthbertson Policy Management Software:- http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir <http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir&f=pol_summary.shtml> &f=pol_summary.shtml ADM Template Editor:- http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir <http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir&f=adm_summary.shtml> &f=adm_summary.shtml Policy Log Reporter(Free) http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir <http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir&f=policyreporter.shtml> &f=policyreporter.shtml -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jfvanmeter@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, 15 March 2007 4:32 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Group Policy Setting to Configurate a Enterprise Power Scheme for XP SP2 workstations hello everyone, i've been tasked with designing a away to configuration power management option for 40K XP SP2 workstations. I've attached the spreed sheet that I use to check for various policy settings and could not find one. Google turned uip that if I was running vista, I could go green from group policy. The thought I have is to create a custom adm file to configure the following reg keys HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\PowerCfg with reg_sz being 0 Standby detection threshold values (for the system, monitor, hard disk-System hibernates, Turn off monitor, Turn off hard disks fields, respectively) HKCU\Control Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\n\Policies Then I could have to capture the correct Binary-encoded parameters for the settings that I want. I'm also sure there would be a way to script this and make a wmi call, to configure the settings. Does anyone know of or have a adm file that will control the power manage option to turn off a monitor and spin down a hard drive and a xp sp2 workstation? Or a better way to do the same thing? Thanks for any help you can give me. --John *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************