Re: Power options

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From: Carrie Garth (PostInGroup_at_invalid.cxg)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 10:07:40 -0500

| "jerrocco" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
| wrote in message news:bbf501c479cd$9e835440$a301280a@phx.gbl
| Why can't I set the power options for the administrator
| and have it carry through for all the users?
|
| I am using windows-XP Professional and I set the power
| options under my name as the administrator. When I look
| at my wife's settings they are different and I can't
| change them.

Power Options are not a system-level computer setting. They are
a per-user registry setting just like desktop settings (such as
wallpaper and color scheme settings), and application settings
(such as Microsoft Office Menu Bar customizations.)

For more information see the following Microsoft Knowledge
Base article:

KB256986 - Description of the Microsoft Windows registry
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?Product=winxp&scid=kb;en-us;256986

To change the Power Options for other Users who are not members
of the Group Administrators you can:

- Log on as Administrator (or a user in the Administrators
group)

- Run the Control Panel applet named: User Accounts. Then, for
your wife's account, "change a user's group or account type" to
Administrator. For more information search the Windows XP Help
and Support Center for the phrase in double-quotes (with the
quotes) and read the Full-text Search Match by that title.

- Use "RunAs" on the "Power Options" applet and logon as your
wife. For more information search the Windows XP Help and
Support Center for the phrase in double-quotes (with the quotes)
and read the Overviews, Articles and Tutorials by that title.

- Set the Power Scheme as desired and click Apply.

- Once again run the Control Panel applet named: User Accounts
and change your wife's account type back to the previous setting.

NOTE: If you want to give your wife the ability to configure
Power Settings and change the Power Scheme without changing her
type of user account you can grant her (or all the members of
the group your wife is a member of), full control access to the
applicable registry key. To do that:

- Log on as Administrator (or a user in the Administrators group)

- Run the Registry Editor (regedit.exe)

- Navigate to the below registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Controls Folder\PowerCfg

- Add the User or Group to the Permissions list and assign Full
Control access.

For information on how "To assign permissions to a registry key",
see the Help and Support Center topic of that title.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Elevated Privileges
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    (microsoft.public.windows.group_policy)
  • Re: Global Power Policy
    ... So far the only way I've been able to get this to work is to copy the profile ... of the user I set power settings for to the default user profile. ... administrator and set them as you wish. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)
  • RE: Changing Power Schemes, Possibly a Group Policy Issue
    ... I believe I found the registry key: ... >put the user in question in the power users group. ... >> it will let me change the settings but it will not ... >> administrator and changing it). ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
  • Re: How to disable Sleep functionality
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    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded)
  • Re: Shutting down Vista - Remembering previous option
    ... Open Power options in Control Panel ... Under the currently selected power plan, ... In the Edit Plan Settings dialog box, ... In the Power Options dialog box, click the plus sign next to ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)