How to change power options in guest account?

[S.L.]

This is in XP home - my guest account's power settings are set to turn off
the monitor only at 15 mins and I get a "permission denied" type of dialog
box if I try to change them. Is this a default value for the guest account,
or is it a reflection of what the administrator account was set to when the
guest account was created? Certainly there must be a way for the
administrator to determine what Guest's power settings should be... TIA for
any help.

SL

 

[Gordon]

This is in XP home - my guest account's power settings are set to turn off
the monitor only at 15 mins and I get a "permission denied" type of dialog
box if I try to change them. Is this a default value for the guest account,
or is it a reflection of what the administrator account was set to when the
guest account was created? Certainly there must be a way for the
administrator to determine what Guest's power settings should be... TIA for
any help.

SL

Why are you bothering with the Guest account in the first place? It is SO
limited as to be almost useless. Create a Limited Account user for others to
use.

 

[Robert Premuz]

Here are a few words to clear up the issue of changing a power scheme
in Windows XP (with SP1).

Only the members of Administrators and "Power Users" (local user
groups with administrative rights) have the right to change the
current power scheme and its settings (which include the
"Turn off monitor" option). Each of the users may set the settings
independently of each other.

On the other hand, the limited users, i.e. the users who are not the
members of Administrators and "Power Users", do not have the right to
change the current power scheme or its settings. The current power
scheme for them is the one last set by a user with administrative
rights. (This means that the power scheme for limited users must be
changed by a user with administrative rights.)

The problem here is that the limited users are not able to see the
actual settings of the current power scheme: if they run the power
applet (in Control Panel) it shows the settings that existed at the
time of creation of their user profile in Windows XP.

-- rpr. /Robert Premuz/

 

[Softail]

This is in XP home - my guest account's power settings are set to turn off
the monitor only at 15 mins and I get a "permission denied" type of dialog
box if I try to change them. Is this a default value for the guest account,
or is it a reflection of what the administrator account was set to when the
guest account was created? Certainly there must be a way for the
administrator to determine what Guest's power settings should be... TIA for
any help.

SL

I know this is an old thread, but I just came upon it.

start, run, type in regedit in your guest account
In the edit tab click on find
type in powerpolicies
click on the + to expand the folder, open the folder 0
double click name in the window to the right.
replace the name Home/desk office with Presentation
Restart your computer go to guest and it will say presentation now instead of Home/desk office and will be set to always on in all options.

Right down what you do in case you fubar, Its a easy fix it will work I did it to both my computers. I use guest account so no one can place a self extractor virus on my computer. But hated the monitor shutting off. I use picture slide show for my screen saver and like looking at the pictures when I come back into the room.

Also, lets say you use auslogics for a defrag. Right click on the icon, click on the option run on, then go down and put the check in the following user, administrator is what you want to type in if its not already there. Put your password in and you are now defraging from your guest account. This can work for other applications as well.