[wix-users] Windows Power Plan

[John Cooper]

See here for some methods to reach the API:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/629240/prevent-windows-from-going-into-sleep-when-my-program-is-running 

You'll need to author some C++ or C# custom actions.  They're going to be deferred, and you're going to need rollback custom actions too.

The installing user is very likely going to have to be a true administrator or elevate to a local administrator to avoid security exceptions.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Phill Hogland
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I would just be guessing also, but my first impression was to look at the WiX Toolset Power Shell Extension and WMI.  (I have not used either, just read some info on them that make me thing they might be useful to you.)

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Joel Budreau
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 10:05 PM
To: Douglas Spence <douglas at t-tech.com>
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Windows Power Plan

My guess is that you’d write some custom actions to envoke powercfg.exe - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748940(v=ws.10).aspx

> On Jan 25, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Dan Gifford <danielg at t-tech.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use Wix to create an installer for my app, and I want to adjust the machine's power settings.  I need the screen to stay on for at least 15 minutes, and the machine should never goto sleep.  Is there a way to do this in Wix?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Dan
> 
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