Remove Sleep and Hibernate from Start Menu in Windows 7 via GPO

Looking around on the internet I found a LOT of incorrect and incomplete information on this.


To remove the sleep and hibernation options from the Windows 7 start menu via GPO do the following (this doesn't disable sleep entirely, just removes it from start menu, to disable sleep via GPO you can do a power plan with it set to 0 and then select the power plan):


Sleep:

Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Power Management\Sleep Settings
Allow Standby States (S1-S3) When Sleeping (Plugged In)
Set to disabled







Hibernate

Note that I tried changing the HibernationEnabled key with no success. Running processmonitor I found that this key and many others are updated, contrary to many of the posts I found on the internet. In addition I found that many of the proposed adm templates for this actually caused GPO processing failure (so beware).


Computer Configuration\Preferences\Windows Settings\Registry
Action - Update
Hive - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key Path - SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
Value Name - DisableHibernate
Value Type - REG_SZ
Value Data - %systemroot%\system32\powercfg.exe -h off
Common Tab - Apply once and do not reapply (optional)