Policy

Turn Off the hard disk (on battery)

Microsoft Windows

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Turn Off the hard disk (on battery)
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
System > Power Management > Hard Disk Settings
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

This policy setting specifies the period of inactivity before Windows turns off the hard disk. If you enable this policy setting, you must provide a value, in seconds, indicating how much idle time should elapse before Windows turns off the hard disk. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can see and change this setting.

Internal name
DiskDCPowerDownTimeOut_2
Policy ID
dc31690461ba
Elements
1

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

ScopeElementTypeRegistry mappingConstraints & behaviorCopy
Computer
Turn Off the Hard Disk (seconds):
ID EnterDiskDCPowerDownTimeOut
decimal
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\6738E2C4-E8A5-4A42-B16A-E040E769756E
Value name
DCSettingIndex
Type
REG_DWORD
Range: ? to 4294967295
Turn Off the Hard Disk (seconds):
Computer · Type decimal
Registry mapping
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Power\PowerSettings\6738E2C4-E8A5-4A42-B16A-E040E769756E
Value name
DCSettingIndex
Type
REG_DWORD
Details
Range: ? to 4294967295