(imported comment written by MattBoyd)
jspanitz
So if an XP machine has no one logged in, it has no power profile applied and will never go into standby or hibernate, is that correct? Is there a way to place a XP machine with no one logged in in some type of power save mode?
In XP, it’s whatever profile the last user had. However, my experience is that you can run powercfg commands as SYSTEM when no one is logged on and it will get set. It required some significant modifications to the power profile fixlet, but it seemed to work with relative consistency across 5000 XP systems last year. I can’t guarantee it will work in all environments though. I’m so glad we upgraded most of our systems to Windows 7!