Power Option

[Andrew P. Follett]

The "power options" icon has disappeared from my control panal (along with
the ability to use any of the options). Does anyone know how to get it
back?

Win 2000 sp4

Andy

 

[Guest]

Note: You must have administration privileges

From the Start menu, click Run, and then type

gpedit.msc (this is the group policy editor)

Press Ente

In the view pane of Group Policy, under User Configuration, open the Adminstrative Templates folder

Click the Control Panel folder

In the details pane, double-click "Hide specified control panel applets

In the "Hide specified control panel applets Properties dialog box, you can either disable hiding, or click "Show

In the "Show Contents dialog box, click Remov

In the Remove dialog box, type: power options

Click OK

Power Options should no longer show up under "List of diallowed Control Panel applets" in the "Show Contents dialog box

Other Group Policy settings that effect Control panel applets are

Disable programs on Settings men
Location: Local Computer Policy\User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu & Taskba
Prevents any programs on the Start/Settings menu from runnin

Disable Control Pane
Location: Local Computer Policy\User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu & Taskbar
Disables all Control Panel programs. This policy prevents Control.exe, the program file for Control Panel, from starting. As a result, users cannot start Control Panel or run any Control Panel program

Show only specified Control Panel applets
Location: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Pane
Hides all Control Panel programs and folders except those specified in this setting

Hide specified Control Panel applet
Location: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Pane
This policy removes Control Panel programs (such as Display) and folders (such as Fonts) from the Control Panel window and the Start menu. It can remove Control Panel programs you have added to your system, as well Control Panel programs that are included in Windows 200

If this is not a Group Policy issue, then you are missing the shortcut to the Control panel applet, the applet is usually located in the systems folder under WINNT.

 

[Emmers Presson [MSFT]]

Here is a relevant article:

243651 Power Options Icon Missing in Control Panel with Terminal Services
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=243651

 

[Andrew P. Follett]

Note: You must have administration privileges.

From the Start menu, click Run, and then type:

gpedit.msc (this is the group policy editor)

Press Enter

In the view pane of Group Policy, under User Configuration, open the

Adminstrative Templates folder.

Click the Control Panel folder.

In the details pane, double-click "Hide specified control panel applets.

In the "Hide specified control panel applets Properties dialog box, you

can either disable hiding, or click "Show"

In the "Show Contents dialog box, click Remove

In the Remove dialog box, type: power options.

Click OK.

Power Options should no longer show up under "List of diallowed Control

Panel applets" in the "Show Contents dialog box.

Other Group Policy settings that effect Control panel applets are:

Disable programs on Settings menu
Location: Local Computer Policy\User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Start Menu & Taskbar
Prevents any programs on the Start/Settings menu from running

Disable Control Panel
Location: Local Computer Policy\User Configuration\Administrative

Templates\Start Menu & Taskbar.

Disables all Control Panel programs. This policy prevents Control.exe,

the program file for Control Panel, from starting. As a result, users cannot
start Control Panel or run any Control Panel programs

Show only specified Control Panel applets.
Location: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel
Hides all Control Panel programs and folders except those specified in this setting.


Hide specified Control Panel applets
Location: User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Control Panel
This policy removes Control Panel programs (such as Display) and folders

(such as Fonts) from the Control Panel window and the Start menu. It can
remove Control Panel programs you have added to your system, as well Control
Panel programs that are included in Windows 200.

If this is not a Group Policy issue, then you are missing the shortcut to

the Control panel applet, the applet is usually located in the systems
folder under WINNT.

Thanks for the reply.

I found powercfg.cpl in the systems32 folder. clicking/double clicking on
it does nothing. The tried every setting in the Group Policy editor
including "disable". No help so far.

Any other ideas?

Andy

 

[boywonder]

In

Adminstrative Templates folder.
can either disable hiding, or click "Show"
Panel applets" in the "Show Contents dialog box.
Templates\Start Menu & Taskbar.
the program file for Control Panel, from starting. As a result, users
cannot start Control Panel or run any Control Panel programs
(such as Fonts) from the Control Panel window and the Start menu. It
can remove Control Panel programs you have added to your system, as
well Control Panel programs that are included in Windows 200.
the Control panel applet, the applet is usually located in the systems
folder under WINNT.

Thanks for the reply.

I found powercfg.cpl in the systems32 folder. clicking/double
clicking on it does nothing. The tried every setting in the Group
Policy editor including "disable". No help so far.

Any other ideas?

Andy

Are the power options missing from your Screen Saver tab in Display
Properties?

My powercfg.cpl shows binary data when double clicked, opens in notepad.
It's in Winnt/ServicePackFiles/i386. All the cpl files do this. When I rt
click this, an option to "open with control panel" appears. This opens it.

see this : http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000136.htm You can extract
a corrupted .cpl file back into the appropriate directory to repair it. You
can also test each cpl icon by typing its name in msdos [run cmd] mode.
Example to run tweakui, I go to the directory in msdos, then type
tweakui.cpl.

I use TweakUI to make any changes in cp.
http://download.com.com/3000-2341-2830963.html?tag=lst-0-1 win2000 version.