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[Guest]

How does someone set a Windows XP Pro box DEFAULT power save
settings for ALL users, INCLUDING the system account?

When set as administrator, the other users don't get the same power save
properties, so the machine won't go to sleep like it should when my kids run
out of the house and leave it on.

Furthermore, when I make all users power settings match (by temporarily
adding each to the Admin group, logging on as each user, changing their
private settings, log off and back on as admin. to take them out of admin
group) the machine now WILL NOT go to sleep when the users are logged off
because the system account apparently still has the default settings, which
is not energy efficient.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

305709 - HOW TO Create a Custom Default User Profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305709


811151 - How to Copy User Data to a New User Profile:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811151

 

[Bob]

Thank you for responding -- that was very close but not quite what I needed.

The first article clones the config. for new users. It can be useful in a
lot of ways, (I may indeed do that for other purposes). My particular need
is to revamp the system account, and that account was created before I got
to become the Admin. in the first place, so the default power settings are
still "stuck" in the dumb default of "keep the computer running forever".
Hey Microsoft, maybe you should think about the environment once in a while.

The second article copies profile files, explicitly omitting the NTUSER.*
files. I suspect replacing ALL the system profile files with some user
profile is going to do more harm than good. I only want to transfer power
save settings.

;-(