RE: Altering power & display settings for all users

From: Mark Peter van Sijll (MarkPetervanSijll_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:45:02 -0800

Hi,

first of all, you are at the wrong newsgroup, this has nothing to do with
"windows xp media center".
second, it is so easy that even somebody like you, would had just made above
mentioned mistake could do this, follow the next steps:

I suppose it is about a Windows 2000 or XP laptop ?? and if so, I will
continue...
- Login as an administrator, and make a extra temporary-admin account on the
laptop,
- Tweak (configure) your; desktop, colors, screensaver, window-settings, etc.
- Log off from the "tweak-admin", and log in as the temp-admin,
- Unhide all system-files and extentions, and go to "C:\Documents and
Settings\"
- Select the "Default User" folder, and make a copy with the contents of the
complete "Default User" folder, into the same directory.
- This would be then: "C:\Documents and Settings\Copy of Default User", this
copy is your original "standard user profile", in case something goes wrong,
replace it to the original location.
- Logged in as Admin-Temp, copy the content of the Tweaked Profile:
"C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\"
to the:
"C:\Documents and Settings\Default User" profile, while its a Administrator
profile and it is tweaked, anything will work quite nicely.
- Log of, log on as the Administrator, and you may delete the "account" and
"profile" of the Admin-Temp,
- From now on, all NEW users will have EXACTLY the same settings in ALL
configurations as the "Administrator", be carefull to sett the users rights
lower than the local Administrator rights, otherwise, anybody can screw up
everything.

Succes with your "copied profile"
M:P

"kuze" wrote:

> We have one laptop computer which our office provides to everyone in the
> company to use for presentations. We would like to configure the laptop's
> power and display settings for all users who sign onto that computer to turn
> off the screen saver and to set the monitor power related settings to "never"
> for all the users. Can this be done and if so, how?
> I couldn't find a registry setting with regards to this and I'm assuming
> that setting up policies would do it however is there another way?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Jack

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