This is a very powerful feature because it allows you full control over the setting you want to configure and the setting that you do not. Figure 2- Disabled setting in a preference item Figure 2 shows another configured Power Options preference item.
However, if, on the computer applying the preference item, a power scheme with the same name exists, the preference item does nothing.
Delete and Update do just what they describe—delete and update.
One of the cool things about preferences is you have control over which settings you want to configure and ones that you do not.
Figure 1 shows each setting in the preference item underlined with a single green line.
However, preference item settings return on the next Group Policy refresh, unless configured otherwise. The Power Scheme preference item allows you to create, modify, and delete power schemes.
This allows you to configure a Windows XP computer to use one of the pre-existing power schemes or modify the settings included in one of the pre-existing power schemes or, just you create your own—it is your choice.
This means the setting in the item is enabled and the setting applies as configured.
Using Figure 1 as an example, the Always show icon on the taskbar is enabled but, the checkbox is not selected.
The key to managing power on Windows XP is Group Policy preferences.
The Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) included with Windows Server 2008 and (soon to be released) Remote Server Administration Tools contains the management portion of portion of preferences.
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