Disable Adaptive Brightness by Group Policy

Hello,
for some windows 8.1 i want to disable adaptive brigtness.
This not a default GPO as i can see :
http://www.eightforums.com/performance-maintenance/21982-lock-brightness-settings.html
Is there a option to only DISABLE this?
When this setting is disabled, the brightness of windows 8.1-tablets are far better than default.
Thx

They won't let me link a hyperlink but if you search for "adaptive brightness service computerstepbystep" then they have a decent article.
In Windows 8 the service has been changed from "Adaptive Brightness" to "Sensor Monitoring Service" and you could change registry settings and/or service startup from group policy.

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