Power management on restricted-user account

[itemyar]

Because of a history of problems, I just reconfigured my daughter's computer
so that I'm the "System Administrator" and she and my grandaughter have
their own login (restricted account)! Problem is that when I login to their
account, I can't change the Power Management- screensaver setting ("turn off
monitor") from the default "20 Minutes"! How do I do this? I tried logging
in as Administrator and switching user, but I still get the "Access Denied"
error when I try to change it!

Thanks all!

Ray

 

[Chris Hagan]

Because of a history of problems, I just reconfigured my daughter's
computer so that I'm the "System Administrator" and she and my
grandaughter have their own login (restricted account)! Problem is that
when I login to their account, I can't change the Power Management-
screensaver setting ("turn off monitor") from the default "20 Minutes"!
How do I do this? I tried logging in as Administrator and switching user,
but I still get the "Access Denied" error when I try to change it!

Thanks all!

Ray

While logged in as your daughter or grand daughter go to
Start/Settings/Control panel and hold down the shift key while right
clicking on the Display icon. On the menu that pops up choose Run As; on the
following screen enter your admin name and password to gain access as the
machine administrator to change settings. You will have to then login as the
other user and repeat the process.

 

[itemyar]

Thanks Chris, but I must be missing something here? I tried your
suggestion, but it just logged me in as the Administrator, with the
Administrator's settings, I still couldn't change the restricted account's
settings!

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Ray,

Power Scheme Settings are not available to limited users:
This feature is by design. Only users with administrative access can
change
this value for the power schemes settings. Normal users do not have
permissions to change this setting.

To work around this issue, an administrator can follow these steps:
Step One: Registry settings
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1. Click Start and Run, type regedit in the open box and click OK.

2. Locate the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ControlsFolder\
PowerCfg\GlobalPowerPolicy

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ControlsFolder\
PowerCfg\PowerPolicy

3. Right click each of the keys, click Permissions.

4. Give the Users group Full Control over these keys.
Step Two: Check the Local Policies settings
------------------------------------------------
1. In Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then
double-click Local Policies.

2. In the left pane, expand Local Policies and click User Rights
Assignment.

3. In the right pane, double click "Shut down the system", and check if
Users group has been added to this local security policy. If not, please
add it.
After these steps, the normal users will be allowed to alter power
scheme
settings without being added to the Local Administrators group.

 

[itemyar]

Thanks Bert, sounds like a lot of work though, just to keep the monitor from
turning off after twenty minutes! What if I temporarily make the restricted
user an "Administrator", make the Power Management change, then change the
user back to limited. I really hate messin' around in the Registry; months
later I forget what I've done in there, if you know what I mean? It's hard
enough to keep track of my own computer!

 

[NTGuru]

Simpler Solution

Just temporarily set her account to administrator, log in as her, make the settings changes, log out and remove the admin rights.



Sometimes simpler is better.

 

[dialman]

Thanks Bert.

The "simpler" solution was no good for me.

I work in as AV support staff in a university and the change had to affect all members of the Users and Power Users groups who login to the machine hooked up to a large monitor we use to keep track of our bookings, lecture recordings and to check the status of our Video Conferencing facilities.
Understandably this display has to stay on all day.

As my colleagues and I rotate across 3 campuses and due to casual staff turnover it was impractical to set each person's account individually.

Your solution is simple (as far as registry mods go) and effective IMO.

Now I'm really =)




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