Power Management

[armsys]

Hi,

Is it possible to adjust power saving parameters (eg, Turn Off Hard Disk, Turn Off Monitor, System Standby, Monitor Brightness,...etc.) through Macro Scheduler? Many thanks for your help in advance.

[adroege]

Try using the powercfg windows command like so:

Run>powercfg /???? /???? /?????

Note: fill in the ???? with appropriate settings for your situation


To see all the switches and parameters execute:

c:\>powercfg /?

[JeffDaruecan]

executefile>%sys_dir%\powercfg.exe,?

Enter this into a script and it should pop right up with the list of options you can enter. change the ? parameter accordingly.

Same as adroege said, but this method quickly opens it in macro even if your OS isn't installed on C:/

[adroege]

executefile>%sys_dir%\powercfg.exe,?

This isn't helpful because powercfg is a console application without a GUI, so all you see is a flash of a black box cmd window opening and then closing. Nothing is left on the screen to look at.

Sure you could make a cmd window open up and then stay open with
cmd /k powercfg /?

But it really is just for reference to see the parms, so I think it's easiest to just open a cmd window manually and type the command. It's located in
Windows\System32 folder by default, and this folder is in the cmd path by default also, so it should be no problem for the OS to find and execute this exe no matter what the current directory is.