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BoxStarter: Windows 7 Test Box
Set-WindowsExplorerOptions -EnableShowHiddenFilesFoldersDrives -EnableShowFileExtensions -EnableShowFullPathInTitleBar
Write-BoxstarterMessage "Setting Windows power plan to $preferredPlan"
$guid = (Get-WmiObject -Class win32_powerplan -Namespace root\cimv2\power -Filter "ElementName='High performance'").InstanceID.tostring()
$regex = [regex]"{(.*?)}$"
$newpowerVal = $regex.Match($guid).groups[1].value
powercfg -S "High performance"
Write-BoxstarterMessage "Setting Standby Timeout to Never"
powercfg -change -standby-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -change -standby-timeout-dc 0
Write-BoxstarterMessage "Setting Monitor Timeout to Never"
powercfg -change -monitor-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -change -monitor-timeout-dc 0
Write-BoxstarterMessage "Setting Disk Timeout to Never"
powercfg -change -disk-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -change -disk-timeout-dc 0
Write-BoxstarterMessage "Turning off Windows Hibernation"
powercfg -h off
Write-BoxstarterMessage "Setting time zone to Central Standard Time"
& C:\Windows\system32\tzutil /s "Central Standard Time"
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