Re: Power policy

I requested help because when running as limited user I could
neither create a power scheme nor select any of the power schemes I
had created as administrator.

Win XP Pro SP2, an Acer TravelMate 4504 notebook


On 20 Mar 2005, "Jon" <zett0004@xxxxxxx> posted:
>I faced this same problem a while back. I don't have time to verify all of
>my comments but I'll try to get you pointed in the right direction.

>>From an admin account, use the control panel to configure the power policy
>that you want to employ in the limited account. Save it with a name. Now
>open regedit and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
>Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies. In my XP I see keys 0-5 (the built-in
>policies), and another one that represents the custom policy that I made
>from the control panel (click on the keys in the left pane and the right
>pane will show what they are).

>Export HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control
>Panel\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies\YourNewPolicyKey to a convenient folder.

>Import your new key into the appropriate user within HKEY_USERS.

>Now change HKEY_USERS\<Your Selected User Key>\Control Panel\PowerCfg data
>value to the number that corresponds to your new policy.

>Exit regedit, restart.

>Like I said, it's been a while since I did this to mine. What I've written
>here is my best recollection. Either this or something very similar works
>great on my machine. Be sure to export a backup copy of the keys before you
>operate on them.

Belated thanks, Jon. I tend to put off things that involve bouncing
back and forth between Admin and limited user but today I
implemented your solution and it works fine ... up to a point.

The screen blanking now seems to happen when desired, but Standby
and Hibernate don't. (I can standby or hibernate manually with no
problem.) After some gogling I believe the problem may be that
Symantec Antivirus is running a background scan and this prevents
the Standby or Hibernate timer from recognizing a large enough
period of inactivity.

Does that sound right? (If so, it's yet another way that PoS
messes up my system, yet my college requires it as a condition of
connecting to the network.)

--

Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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