Thank you very much!Here's my previous discussions (link1, link2) on power overrides, but the gist of what's happening is that Windows automatically adds up to 4 different registry keys in multiple places, depending on the power capabilities of the hardware in use, when the operating system is first installed.
The tweaks will show up as one of the following key names in Regedit:
- OverrideACSettingIndex
- OverrideDCSettingIndex
- ProvACSettingIndex
- ProvDCSettingIndex
When these keys appear in the \Power\ branch of the registry, they act like a group policy and take priority over the user's settings as well as the operating system defaults. To stop that behavior, simply delete any keys with the names shown above and the operating system will go back to using the values from the standard keys that are labeled plainly as "ACSettingIndex" and "DCSettingIndex" without the "Override" or "Prov" prefixes.
One last question, is it safe then to add these to prevent the unwanted behavior:
"OverrideACSettingIndex"=-
"OverrideDCSettingIndex"=-
"ProvACSettingIndex"=-
"ProvDCSettingIndex"=-
To any setting that is using "ACSettingIndex" and "DCSettingIndex"?
Like:
; Start > Windows System > Control Panel > Power Options > Change plan settings (High performance) > Change advanced power settings > Hard disk > Turn off hard disk after > Never
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\0012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442\6738e2c4-e8a5-4a42-b16a-e040e769756e\DefaultPowerSchemeValues\8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c]
"ACSettingIndex"=dword:00000000
"DCSettingIndex"=dword:00000000
Or:
; Start > Windows System > Control Panel > Power Options > Change plan settings (High performance) > Change advanced power settings > High performance > Require a password on wakeup > No
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\0E796BDB-100D-47D6-A2D5-F7D2DAA51F51\DefaultPowerSchemeValues\8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c]
"ACSettingIndex"=dword:00000000
"DCSettingIndex"=dword:00000000
Because I saw that in the "Automate.reg" from the links you provided that you added these to the power button and lid settings, but since there are more settings using "ACSettingIndex" and "DCSettingIndex", I wonder if I should add those 4 keys to these as well (to prevent unwanted behavior from windows depending on machine in every power setting I changed and that is using "ACSettingIndex" and "DCSettingIndex").
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