Category: At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

This policy setting denies execute access to the Floppy Drives removable storage class including USB Floppy Drives. If you enable this policy setting execute access is denied to this removable storage class. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting execute access is allowed to this removable storage class.

This policy setting denies execute access to the CD and DVD removable storage class. If you enable this policy setting execute access is denied to this removable storage class. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting execute access is allowed to this removable storage class.

This policy setting allows the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) providers Win32_ReliabilityStabilitymetrics and Win32_ReliabilityRecords to provide data to Reliability Monitor in the Action Center control panel and to respond to WMI requests. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting the listed providers will respond to WMI queries and Reliability Monitor will display system reliability information. If you disable this policy setting Reliability Monitor will not display system reliability information and WMI-capable applications will be unable to access reliability information from the listed providers.

This policy setting determines whether the print spooler will override the Driver Isolation compatibility reported by the print driver. This enables executing print drivers in an isolated process even if the driver does not report compatibility. If you enable this policy setting the print spooler isolates all print drivers that do not explicitly opt out of Driver Isolation. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting the print spooler uses the Driver Isolation compatibility flag value reported by the print driver. Notes:-Other system or driver policy settings may alter the process in which a print driver is executed. -This policy setting applies only to print drivers loaded by the print spooler. Print drivers loaded by applications are not affected. -This policy setting takes effect without restarting the print spooler service.

This policy setting determines whether the print spooler will execute print drivers in an isolated or separate process. When print drivers are loaded in an isolated process (or isolated processes) a print driver failure will not cause the print spooler service to fail. If you enable or do not configure this policy setting the print spooler will execute print drivers in an isolated process by default. If you disable this policy setting the print spooler will execute print drivers in the print spooler process. Notes:-Other system or driver policy settings may alter the process in which a print driver is executed. -This policy setting applies only to print drivers loaded by the print spooler. Print drivers loaded by applications are not affected. -This policy setting takes effect without restarting the print spooler service.

This policy setting allows you to manage where client computers search for Point and Printer drivers. If you enable this policy setting the client computer will continue to search for compatible Point and Print drivers from Windows Update after it fails to find the compatible driver from the local driver store and the server driver cache. If you disable this policy setting the client computer will only search the local driver store and server driver cache for compatible Point and Print drivers. If it is unable to find a compatible driver then the Point and Print connection will fail. This policy setting is not configured by default and the behavior depends on the version of Windows that you are using. By default Windows Ultimate Professional and Home SKUs will continue to search for compatible Point and Print drivers from Windows Update if needed. However you must explicitly enable this policy setting for other versions of Windows (for example Windows Enterprise and all versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 and later) to have the same behavior.

This policy setting specifies the percentage of battery capacity remaining that triggers the reserve power mode. If you enable this policy setting you must enter a numeric value (percentage) to set the battery level that triggers the reserve power notification. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting users can see and change this setting.

This policy setting allows applications and services to prevent automatic sleep. If you enable this policy setting any application service or device driver prevents Windows from automatically transitioning to sleep after a period of user inactivity. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting applications services or drivers do not prevent Windows from automatically transitioning to sleep. Only user input is used to determine if Windows should automatically sleep.

This policy setting allows applications and services to prevent automatic sleep. If you enable this policy setting any application service or device driver prevents Windows from automatically transitioning to sleep after a period of user inactivity. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting applications services or drivers do not prevent Windows from automatically transitioning to sleep. Only user input is used to determine if Windows should automatically sleep.

This policy setting allows you to specify the period of inactivity before Windows transitions to sleep automatically when a user is not present at the computer. If you enable this policy setting you must provide a value in seconds indicating how much idle time should elapse before Windows automatically transitions to sleep when left unattended. If you specify 0 seconds Windows does not automatically transition to sleep. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting users control this setting. If the user has configured a slide show to run on the lock screen when the machine is locked this can prevent the sleep transition from occuring. The “Prevent enabling lock screen slide show” policy setting can be used to disable the slide show feature.