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Is there a way to disable power management on a remote PC?

I have some machines that go into hybernation or system stand-by.

It happens quite often, what I usually do is grant the user local admin rights and then have them disable it.

I was just wondering if the was a way i could do it without going through those steps.

 

Thanks!

First, as you noticed the user needs the proper rights.  One way is to make the user a local admin  The other way is simply to give the user change rights to the proper registry keys:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls Folder\PowerCfg\GlobalPowerPolicy

and

MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls Folder\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

You can set those via Group Policy, then create a login script that uses the commandline tool:

POWERCFG

to set things the way you want.  This command should be on any XP Pro SP2 computer.  I don't know about Vista.  You may need to run it several times like:

powercfg /HIBERNATE OFF
powercfg /CHANGE "Home/Office Desk" /standby-timeout-ac 0

etc.  You'll need to try for yourself.  I suppose another way would be to use the CMOS setup for each computer to disable ACPI, but not all BIOS support this.