Power Management Settings

[Janet]

I have a Windows 2000 professional workstation that goes
into "power save mode" after 20 minutes. I can log in as
local administrator or Domain administrator and change it.
However, it appears to be profile specific and the users
on that PC do not have administrative rights. Is there any
way to change this setting for everyone without giving
them administrative rights. When I attempt to change the
setting logged in as a user, I get an error
message "Access Denied: Power Policy Manager unable to set
active policy". I am NOT running Active Directory as I
still have NT Server on my Domain controllers. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jeff Cochran]

I have a Windows 2000 professional workstation that goes
into "power save mode" after 20 minutes. I can log in as
local administrator or Domain administrator and change it.
However, it appears to be profile specific and the users
on that PC do not have administrative rights. Is there any
way to change this setting for everyone without giving
them administrative rights. When I attempt to change the
setting logged in as a user, I get an error
message "Access Denied: Power Policy Manager unable to set
active policy". I am NOT running Active Directory as I
still have NT Server on my Domain controllers. Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Obvious suggestion: Make the user a local admin, change it, remove
the user from the local admin group. I think Power Users can also
change this.

Might also post in a scripting group for suggestions on how to script
this.

Jeff

 

[Janet]

Thank you Jeff but that suggestion isn't going to work for
me on this machine. It is located in an area that is used
and logged into by about 200 users over the course of 24
hours. Any other suggestions?

 

[vickstur]

Janet:

Check out this site:

http://tinyurl.com/3gth7

I was able get this "workaround" from the MS support site. It i
cumbersome, but attains the goal.

Vickey Patric

vickstu