| Want to manipulate your PC or laptop's power | | | | XP so you will need 6 registry files. Launch |
| policies using Windows XP registry? The steps are | | | | notepad and paste the following content removing |
| simple and enable you to quickly modify the | | | | texts in brackets: |
| power policy of your PC or laptop with a double | | | | Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 |
| click. Of course you need to know what you are | | | | (blank line) |
| doing to your registry which is what this article is | | | | [HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/PowerCfg] |
| about. | | | | (replace the forward slashes with black slashes) |
| Before we go on to talk about modifying | | | | "CurrentPowerPolicy"="0" |
| Windows XP registry power policies, please note | | | | And then save the file as "scheme1.reg". You can |
| that you need to make sure that the power | | | | choose any name you want but the file must |
| schemes are set according your preferences. To | | | | have the extension .reg. You should have noticed |
| do so, right click on your desktop and click on | | | | that the "CurrentPowerPolicy" is set to 0 which |
| "Properties". Go to the "Screen Saver" tab and | | | | refers to scheme 1 which is "Home/Office Desk" |
| click on "Power" button. Then you can start to | | | | scheme in XP. You can now proceed to create 5 |
| modify the power schemes to suit your | | | | more registry files for the rest of the schemes. |
| preference. The steps are particular to XP but | | | | What you need to do to apply the Windows XP |
| Vista should have similar interface though I am | | | | registry power policies setting is simply to double |
| not absolutely sure. After you have done so, then | | | | click on the registry file that you want to set the |
| you can now choose which power scheme you | | | | scheme for. When prompted on whether you are |
| want using Windows XP registry power policies | | | | sure you want to add the information to the |
| setting which is much faster than going through | | | | registry, just click Yes. If you see any error, |
| the steps above. You just need to prepare one | | | | chances are you have not created the registry |
| registry file for each scheme and double click on | | | | file properly. Make sure there is no space before |
| the one you want to set subsequently. It is fast | | | | or on top of the sentence "Windows Registry |
| and convenient. | | | | Editor Version 5.00" and make sure you replaced |
| I mentioned that in order to modify Windows XP | | | | the forward slashes with back slashes. Manipulating |
| registry power policies, you need one registry file | | | | Windows XP registry power policies will be a |
| for each scheme. There are 6 power schemes in | | | | breeze from now on. |