Power Policy Manager unable to set active policy

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Sabo, Eric

We have a regular user that wants to adjust their power options. They are
on a Windows XP Professional.

When they try to adjust the power options, they get the following error.
Power policy manager unable to set active policy
"access denied"

Is there any way to accomplish giving the user want they want without giving
the user admin rights to their machine?
 
Basically, I found what I need:

If you give the user full control of the following registry keys:

It works without giving the user full admin rights on the machine
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ControlsFolder\
PowerCfg\GlobalPowerPolicy

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ControlsFolder\
PowerCfg\PowerPolicies
 
Thanks for this information

Hi,

I had been receiving this message "Power policy manager unable to set active policy" for the last two days in XP Client machine and Windows SE 2003 srv environment. I would like to thank you for providing this useful information. I applied this on client site and it is working fine. i tried to put this in GPO at server end but it did not work.

Thanks again,
Bye
Shakil
 
Hi Sabo, Eric,


Thanks for the fix. It works.

Also, teodoruc. The are no keys to set. Just right click on the folders and choose permissions.
 
Thanks to Eric and everyone.

You can change the power policy registry key permissions from the domain controller. You don't need to touch the user machine.

start->administrative tools->domain security policy
click the registry folder
action->add key

MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ControlsFolder\PowerCfg\GlobalPowerPolicy
MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ControlsFolder\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

on permissions, click your user group, click full control, save
I did configure permissions, propagate to subkeys

I rebooted my laptop (may only need to logout, don't know), then checked permissions on the registry keys.

start->run->regedit
drill down to the keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
click on GlobalPowerPolicy key
edit->permissions
click your user group
should show full control, did for me
exit

Log in as normal user. You can now change the power policy!

Very helpful thread, thank guys!

Brian Hanna
Minneapolis
 
Apparently you need to reboot the client laptop in order for the domain security policy to apply permission changes.
 
solution for the query mr sabo eric

Sabo said:
We have a regular user that wants to adjust their power options. They are
on a Windows XP Professional.

When they try to adjust the power options, they get the following error.
Power policy manager unable to set active policy
"access denied"

Is there any way to accomplish giving the user want they want without giving
the user admin rights to their machine?

--
Eric Sabo
NT Administrator
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solution : -
[font='Arial','sans-serif']1. Navigate to Start\Run and type REGEDIT.
2. Highlight the HKEY\USERS registry key
3. From the FILE menu select LOAD HIVE
4. Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\Default User and select NTUSER.DAT and click OK.
5. Next you are prompted for a name. Type NTUSER and press enter.
6. You will now see a NTUSER registry key under HKEY\USERS.
7. Highlight the NTUSER\Control Pannel\PowerCfg key.
8. In the right pane you will see Current Power Policy with a value of 0-4, change this to a value of 1 for laptop, 3 for always on, 0 for home ofice.
9. Highlight the NTUSER key.
10. From the FILE menu select UNLOAD HIVE. Confirm that you want to close all sub-keys.
11. From the FILE menu select EXIT.
12. Log off current user and test registry edit by logging in as a user and check the power options in the control panel. It should be set to always on.
13. End Task.[/font]
 
Thanks Brian

You saved me hours of work by doing it from the domain controller.

Brian Hanna said:
Thanks to Eric and everyone.

You can change the power policy registry key permissions from the domain controller. You don't need to touch the user machine.

start->administrative tools->domain security policy
click the registry folder
action->add key

MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ControlsFolder\PowerCfg\GlobalPowerPolicy
MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ControlsFolder\PowerCfg\PowerPolicies

on permissions, click your user group, click full control, save
I did configure permissions, propagate to subkeys

I rebooted my laptop (may only need to logout, don't know), then checked permissions on the registry keys.

start->run->regedit
drill down to the keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
click on GlobalPowerPolicy key
edit->permissions
click your user group
should show full control, did for me
exit

Log in as normal user. You can now change the power policy!

Very helpful thread, thank guys!

Brian Hanna
Minneapolis
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