Re: Power Managment Under Group Policy

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From: Brendon Rogers (brendon_at_nospam-itology.net)
Date: 02/07/04


Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 06:36:14 -0500

Microsoft screwed the pooch on this one.

Power management settings are binary values in the registry and Group Policy
doesnt work with binary values so you can't use GPO to control power
management settings.

What you can do is change the permissions on the registry keys via GPO which
will allow normal users to change the power settings:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls
Folder\Power Cfg

"Matt Radcliffe" <rad1761@rebelmail.dixie.edu> wrote in message
news:be5c01c3ece8$10061df0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a GPO setup on some reference computers in a
> library setting. I want to change the monitor shutdown
> time, but when logged on as the student account I don't
> have permission to change, and when I log on with my admin
> account It only changes the admin settings and not the
> student. I can't find anywhere in my Group Policy
> settings that deals with Power managmentj. Does anyone
> know what I need to do to change those settings?



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