Guest account and power profile question

[Jeff Barnett]

I occasionally have a visitor that I allow to use one of our computers.
I created Guest accounts for his use. I recently noticed that if he is
the last one to use one of the computers that it will not enter a
suspend state. I checked the power profile for the Guest user, set what
I wanted, clicked okay, and got something like a not authorized message.

Any way to fix power settings for the Guest account? I know I could ask
this user to log out then select suspend from the Welcome Screen. If I
could trust him to do that faithfully, I probably would have given him a
regular account.

Jeff Barnett

 

[Unk]

I occasionally have a visitor that I allow to use one of our computers.
I created Guest accounts for his use. I recently noticed that if he is
the last one to use one of the computers that it will not enter a
suspend state. I checked the power profile for the Guest user, set what
I wanted, clicked okay, and got something like a not authorized message.

Any way to fix power settings for the Guest account? I know I could ask
this user to log out then select suspend from the Welcome Screen. If I
could trust him to do that faithfully, I probably would have given him a
regular account.

Jeff Barnett

From your Administrator account; Control Panel, User Accounts, select his guest account, change
that account type to Administrator. Boot to that account, make the chanes and save them, reboot
to your account and change his account type back to limited.

 

[Tim Meddick]

Rather than changing the Guest account's privileges (something that was
never designed to be done with the special 'Guest' account), instead, try
this;

Power profiles are what's known as"Global" - when applied, they are applied
to the entire system. With the [special] limits placed on the 'Guest'
account, it is not possible to create new 'power profiles' - So, instead,
login as an Administrator-level user and create a new power-profile for the
Guest account (you could call it "Guest's Power").
Then, when you are next in the Guest's account, you should simply be able
to switch to it, using the Power Options Properties control panel
extension.

Also, you could use a third-party utility, like FreshUI, to restrict the
Guest user from being able to access the Power Options control panel, and
from changing any settings there in the future...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

 

[Jeff Barnett]

Tim, your suggestion sound great. Unfortunately, it was too good (and
sensible) to be true. I names the profile used by an admin account,
MY-HOME-PROFILE. It did not show up as a choice for either the guest
account or for a power user. For the record 'm running XP PRO SP3 using
the Welcome Window (or whatever it's called) and simple file sharing.

I tried to access the new profile through the power options in control
panel and via desktop properties; neither showed the new profile. Any
idea what might be going on?

Jeff Barnett


Tim Meddick wrote, On 6/14/2013 3:18 AM:

Rather than changing the Guest account's privileges (something that was
never designed to be done with the special 'Guest' account), instead,
try this;

Power profiles are what's known as"Global" - when applied, they are
applied to the entire system. With the [special] limits placed on the
'Guest' account, it is not possible to create new 'power profiles' - So,
instead, login as an Administrator-level user and create a new
power-profile for the Guest account (you could call it "Guest's Power").
Then, when you are next in the Guest's account, you should simply be
able to switch to it, using the Power Options Properties control panel
extension.

Also, you could use a third-party utility, like FreshUI, to restrict the
Guest user from being able to access the Power Options control panel,
and from changing any settings there in the future...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.

I occasionally have a visitor that I allow to use one of our
computers. I created Guest accounts for his use. I recently noticed
that if he is the last one to use one of the computers that it will
not enter a suspend state. I checked the power profile for the Guest
user, set what I wanted, clicked okay, and got something like a not
authorized message.

Any way to fix power settings for the Guest account? I know I could
ask this user to log out then select suspend from the Welcome Screen.
If I could trust him to do that faithfully, I probably would have
given him a regular account.

Jeff Barnett