enter display name here enter description here Turn on the ability for applications to prevent sleep transitions (plugged in) Specify the system hibernate timeout (plugged in) Select the Power button action (plugged in) Require a password when a computer wakes (plugged in) Select the Sleep button action (plugged in) Select the Start menu Power button action (plugged in) Specify the system sleep timeout (plugged in) Turn off hybrid sleep (plugged in) Select the lid switch action (plugged in) This policy setting specifies the action that Windows takes when battery capacity reaches the critical battery notification level. If you enable this policy setting, select one of the following actions: -Take no action -Sleep -Hibernate -Shut down If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. This policy setting specifies the action that Windows takes when battery capacity reaches the low battery notification level. If you enable this policy setting, select one of the following actions: -Take no action -Sleep -Hibernate -Shut down If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. This policy setting specifies the percentage of battery capacity remaining that triggers the critical battery notification action. If you enable this policy setting, you must enter a numeric value (percentage) to set the battery level that triggers the critical notification. To set the action that is triggered, see the "Critical Battery Notification Action" policy setting. If you disable this policy setting or do not configure it, users control this setting. This policy setting specifies the percentage of battery capacity remaining that triggers the low battery notification action. If you enable this policy setting, you must enter a numeric value (percentage) to set the battery level that triggers the low notification. To set the action that is triggered, see the "Low Battery Notification Action" policy setting. If you disable this policy setting or do not configure it, users control this setting. This policy setting turns off the user notification when the battery capacity remaining equals the low battery notification level. If you enable this policy setting, Windows shows a notification when the battery capacity remaining equals the low battery notification level. To configure the low battery notification level, see the "Low Battery Notification Level" policy setting. The notification will only be shown if the "Low Battery Notification Action" policy setting is configured to "No Action". If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can control this setting. Hibernate Take no action Shut down Sleep This policy setting allows you to turn on the ability for applications and services to prevent the system from sleeping. If you enable this policy setting, an application or service may prevent the system from sleeping (Hybrid Sleep, Stand By, or Hibernate). If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. Specify a custom active power plan This policy setting specifies the active power plan from a specified power plan’s GUID. The GUID for a custom power plan GUID can be retrieved by using powercfg, the power configuration command line tool. If you enable this policy setting, you must specify a power plan, specified as a GUID using the following format: XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX (For example, 103eea6e-9fcd-4544-a713-c282d8e50083), indicating the power plan to be active. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can see and change this setting. Critical battery notification action Low battery notification action Critical battery notification level Low battery notification level Turn off low battery user notification Turn on the ability for applications to prevent sleep transitions (on battery) Specify the system hibernate timeout (on battery) Select the Power button action (on battery) Require a password when a computer wakes (on battery) Select the Sleep button action (on battery) Select the Start menu Power button action (on battery) Specify the system sleep timeout (on battery) Turn off hybrid sleep (on battery) Select the lid switch action (on battery) Turn Off the hard disk (plugged in) Turn Off the hard disk (on battery) This policy setting specifies the period of inactivity before Windows turns off the hard disk. If you enable this policy setting, you must provide a value, in seconds, indicating how much idle time should elapse before Windows turns off the hard disk. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can see and change this setting. Do not turn off system power after a Windows system shutdown has occurred. This policy setting allows you to configure whether power is automatically turned off when Windows shutdown completes. This setting does not affect Windows shutdown behavior when shutdown is manually selected using the Start menu or Task Manager user interfaces. Applications such as UPS software may rely on Windows shutdown behavior. This setting is only applicable when Windows shutdown is initiated by software programs invoking the Windows programming interfaces ExitWindowsEx() or InitiateSystemShutdown(). If you enable this policy setting, the computer system safely shuts down and remains in a powered state, ready for power to be safely removed. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the computer system safely shuts down to a fully powered-off state. This policy setting allows you to specify the period of inactivity before Windows transitions the system to hibernate. If you enable this policy setting, you must provide a value, in seconds, indicating how much idle time should elapse before Windows transitions to hibernate. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. If the user has configured a slide show to run on the lock screen when the machine is locked, this can prevent the sleep transition from occuring. The "Prevent enabling lock screen slide show" policy setting can be used to disable the slide show feature. Select an active power plan This policy setting specifies the active power plan from a list of default Windows power plans. To specify a custom power plan, use the Custom Active Power Plan setting. If you enable this policy setting, specify a power plan from the Active Power Plan list. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. Power Saver High Performance Automatic (recommended) Notification Settings This policy setting specifies the action that Windows takes when a user presses the power button. Possible actions include: -Take no action -Sleep -Hibernate -Shut down If you enable this policy setting, you must select the desired action. If you disable this policy setting or do not configure it, users can see and change this setting. Button Settings Hard Disk Settings Power Management Sleep Settings Video and Display Settings This policy setting specifies whether or not the user is prompted for a password when the system resumes from sleep. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, the user is prompted for a password when the system resumes from sleep. If you disable this policy setting, the user is not prompted for a password when the system resumes from sleep. Prompt for password on resume from hibernate/suspend This policy setting allows you to configure client computers to lock and prompt for a password when resuming from a hibernate or suspend state. If you enable this policy setting, the client computer is locked and prompted for a password when it is resumed from a suspend or hibernate state. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control if their computer is automatically locked or not after performing a resume operation. This policy setting specifies the action that Windows takes when a user presses the sleep button. Possible actions include: -Take no action -Sleep -Hibernate -Shut down If you enable this policy setting, you must select the desired action. If you disable this policy setting or do not configure it, users can see and change this setting. This policy setting specifies the action that Windows takes when a user presses the Start menu Power button. If you enable this policy setting, select one of the following actions: -Sleep -Hibernate -Shut down If you disable this policy or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. This policy setting allows you to specify the period of inactivity before Windows transitions the system to sleep. If you enable this policy setting, you must provide a value, in seconds, indicating how much idle time should elapse before Windows transitions to sleep. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. If the user has configured a slide show to run on the lock screen when the machine is locked, this can prevent the sleep transition from occuring. The "Prevent enabling lock screen slide show" policy setting can be used to disable the slide show feature. This policy setting allows you to turn off hybrid sleep. If you enable this policy setting, a hiberfile is not generated when the system transitions to sleep (Stand By). If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. This policy setting specifies the action that Windows takes when a user closes the lid on a mobile PC. Possible actions include: -Take no action -Sleep -Hibernate -Shut down If you enable this policy setting, you must select the desired action. If you disable this policy setting or do not configure it, users can see and change this setting. Turn off adaptive display timeout (plugged in) Turn off adaptive display timeout (on battery) This policy setting allows you to manage how long a computer must be inactive before Windows turns off the computer’s display. If you enable this policy setting, Windows automatically adjusts the setting based on what users do with their keyboard or mouse to keep the display on. If you disable this policy setting, Windows uses the same setting regardless of users’ keyboard or mouse behavior. If you do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. Turn off the display (plugged in) Turn off the display (on battery) This policy setting allows you to specify the period of inactivity before Windows turns off the display. If you enable this policy setting, you must provide a value, in seconds, indicating how much idle time should elapse before Windows turns off the display. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. If the user has configured a slide show to run on the lock screen when the machine is locked, this can prevent the display from turning off. The "Prevent enabling lock screen slide show" policy setting can be used to disable the slide show feature. Allow standby states (S1-S3) when sleeping (plugged in) Allow standby states (S1-S3) when sleeping (on battery) This policy setting manages whether or not Windows is allowed to use standby states when putting the computer in a sleep state. If you enable this policy setting, Windows uses standby states to put the computer in a sleep state. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the only sleep state a computer may enter is hibernate. Allow automatic sleep with Open Network Files (plugged in) Allow automatic sleep with Open Network Files (on battery) This policy setting allows you to manage automatic sleep with open network files. If you enable this policy setting, the computer automatically sleeps when network files are open. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the computer does not automatically sleep when network files are open. Reduce display brightness (plugged in) Reduce display brightness (on battery) This policy setting allows you to specify the period of inactivity before Windows automatically reduces brightness of the display. If you enable this policy setting, you must provide a value, in seconds, indicating how much idle time should elapse before Windows automatically reduces the brightness of the display. Windows will only reduce the brightness of the primary display integrated into the computer. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. Specify the display dim brightness (plugged in) Specify the display dim brightness (on battery) This policy setting allows you to specify the brightness of the display when Windows automatically reduces brightness of the display. If you enable this policy setting, you must provide a value, in percentage, indicating the display brightness when Windows automatically reduces brightness of the display. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. Turn on desktop background slideshow (plugged in) Turn on desktop background slideshow (on battery) This policy setting allows you to specify if Windows should enable the desktop background slideshow. If you enable this policy setting, desktop background slideshow is enabled. If you disable this policy setting, the desktop background slideshow is disabled. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. Specify the unattended sleep timeout (plugged in) Specify the unattended sleep timeout (on battery) This policy setting allows you to specify the period of inactivity before Windows transitions to sleep automatically when a user is not present at the computer. If you enable this policy setting, you must provide a value, in seconds, indicating how much idle time should elapse before Windows automatically transitions to sleep when left unattended. If you specify 0 seconds, Windows does not automatically transition to sleep. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users control this setting. If the user has configured a slide show to run on the lock screen when the machine is locked, this can prevent the sleep transition from occuring. The "Prevent enabling lock screen slide show" policy setting can be used to disable the slide show feature. Allow applications to prevent automatic sleep (plugged in) Allow applications to prevent automatic sleep (on battery) This policy setting allows applications and services to prevent automatic sleep. If you enable this policy setting, any application, service, or device driver prevents Windows from automatically transitioning to sleep after a period of user inactivity. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, applications, services, or drivers do not prevent Windows from automatically transitioning to sleep. Only user input is used to determine if Windows should automatically sleep. Reserve battery notification level This policy setting specifies the percentage of battery capacity remaining that triggers the reserve power mode. If you enable this policy setting, you must enter a numeric value (percentage) to set the battery level that triggers the reserve power notification. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can see and change this setting. System Hibernate Timeout (seconds): System Hibernate Timeout (seconds): Power Button Action Power Button Action Sleep Button Action Sleep Button Action User Interface Sleep Button Action User Interface Sleep Button Action System Sleep Timeout (seconds): System Sleep Timeout (seconds): Lid Switch Action Lid Switch Action Custom Active Power Plan (GUID): Custom Active Power Plan (GUID): Critical Battery Notification Action Critical Battery Notification Action Low Battery Notification Action Low Battery Notification Action Critical Battery Notification Level Critical Battery Notification Level Low Battery Notification Level Low Battery Notification Level System Hibernate Timeout (seconds): System Hibernate Timeout (seconds): Power Button Action Power Button Action Sleep Button Action Sleep Button Action User Interface Sleep Button Action User Interface Sleep Button Action System Sleep Timeout (seconds): System Sleep Timeout (seconds): Lid Switch Action Lid Switch Action Turn Off the Hard Disk (seconds): Turn Off the Hard Disk (seconds): Turn Off the Hard Disk (seconds): Turn Off the Hard Disk (seconds): Active Power Plan: Active Power Plan: Turn Off the Display (seconds): Turn Off the Display (seconds): Turn Off the Display (seconds): Turn Off the Display (seconds): Reduce Display Brightness (seconds): Display Dim Brightness (percent): Unattended Sleep Timeout (seconds): Reserve Battery Notification Level (percent):