Power options windows 2008 group policy

This category has eight policy settings. You can further categorize these policy settings into two categories of four: policies for when the computer is plugged-in and for when the computer is on battery.

The four settings allow you to define the actions performed when the user presses the power or sleep button or, when the user closes the lid of the computer. The last setting controls the power button located on the Start menu. The next category is Hard Disk. This category has two policy settings. As with the other power management categories, it categorizes these policy settings for when the computer is plugged-in and when the computer is on battery. You use this policy setting to shut down the user hard drive after a specified amount of inactivity.

Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Right click the policy setting and click on Edit. When you enable this policy setting, the Power button and the Shut Down, Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate commands are removed from the Start menu.

Click on Enabled to enable this policy setting and click OK. Close the GPMC editor. We have got a OU called Test which includes few users. On one of the client machines, login with the user account that is a part of Test OU or the OU at which the policy was applied. When you login and click on Start you see that options such as Shut Down , Restart, Sleep, and Hibernate are not available for the user. The policy also works fine on Windows 10 client computers.