Power Managment Under Group Policy

[Matt Radcliffe]

I have a GPO setup on some reference computers in a
library setting. I want to change the monitor shutdown
time, but when logged on as the student account I don't
have permission to change, and when I log on with my admin
account It only changes the admin settings and not the
student. I can't find anywhere in my Group Policy
settings that deals with Power managmentj. Does anyone
know what I need to do to change those settings?

 

[Brendon Rogers]

Microsoft screwed the pooch on this one.

Power management settings are binary values in the registry and Group Policy
doesnt work with binary values so you can't use GPO to control power
management settings.

What you can do is change the permissions on the registry keys via GPO which
will allow normal users to change the power settings:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Controls
Folder\Power Cfg

 

[Matt Radcliffe]

Would I go into the Registry, under the GPO on my server.
When I do that there is no HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.