How to change settings for a limited user?

[Frank Rizzo]

Hello,

My Windows XP PC has an Admin account and several limited User accounts.
How can I, as an admin, change settings on a user account?

For the sake of discussion, let's say I want to change the Power
settings: I want the monitor to turn off after 4 hours of the computer
being idle.

Right now, I login to the user account, open the power applet, try to
change the setting and appropriately get "Access Denied".

How can I tell Windows XP that I am the admin and that it is OK for me
to change those values?

Or better yet, how can I do the same thing to this user, but while I am
logged in my own Admin account.

Thanks.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hello,

My Windows XP PC has an Admin account and several limited User accounts.
How can I, as an admin, change settings on a user account?

For the sake of discussion, let's say I want to change the Power settings:
I want the monitor to turn off after 4 hours of the computer being idle.

Right now, I login to the user account, open the power applet, try to
change the setting and appropriately get "Access Denied".

How can I tell Windows XP that I am the admin and that it is OK for me to
change those values?

Or better yet, how can I do the same thing to this user, but while I am
logged in my own Admin account.

Thanks.

Is this XP Pro or Home? Have you tried promoting the limited account to
Admin, making the change, then demoting them?

HTH
-pk

 

[Frank Rizzo]

Is this XP Pro or Home? Have you tried promoting the limited account to
Admin, making the change, then demoting them?

It's XP Pro. Yeah, I've thought of that and typically I could do it,
but the limited user account is running a really secured Kiosk-style
application and I can't get in there to do anything really.

I need to find a way to do it from my logged in admin account.
Is there a way to load the registry hive for a certain user and changing
the settings there?

 

[Guest]

i think you can add the limited user account to the power user group from
then you can access the part you want change.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

It's XP Pro. Yeah, I've thought of that and typically I could do it, but
the limited user account is running a really secured Kiosk-style
application and I can't get in there to do anything really.

I need to find a way to do it from my logged in admin account.
Is there a way to load the registry hive for a certain user and changing
the settings there?

Since it's XP Pro, you might investigate Group Policies.

HTH
-pk