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Sam Fertel
My daughter and I both have Dell notebooks. Hers is a Inspiron B130
with XP Home, mine a Latitude D510 with XP Pro. Both have the same
problem. In the admin profile I can change the power settings. On
battery for instance, turn off the monitor after 3 minutes and
hibernate after 20 min. When I go to a User (Restricted) profile, the
settings are not changed. I can change the power settings, but when I
try to save them, the User account, of course, does not have the
proper permissions. The two different power settings do really work in
the Administrator account, and the stated but incorrect, really do
work on the User accounts.
On my daughter's computer the settings are:
Admin profile:
Plugged in:
Turn off Monitor: after 10 min
Turn off hard disks: never
System standby: after 15
System hibernates: never
Batteries:
Turn off Monitor: after 5 minutes
Turn off hard disks: after 15
System standby: after 10 min
System hibernates: after 20 min
User profile:
Plugged in:
Turn off Monitor: Never
Turn off hard disks: after 20
System standby: after 25
System hibernates: blank
Batteries:
Turn off Monitor: Never
Turn off hard disks: after 30
System standby: after 1 hour
System hibernates: blank
I have read about similar (but not the same) problems in this group.
Does anyone have a solution or a suggestion?
Thank you!
Bill
with XP Home, mine a Latitude D510 with XP Pro. Both have the same
problem. In the admin profile I can change the power settings. On
battery for instance, turn off the monitor after 3 minutes and
hibernate after 20 min. When I go to a User (Restricted) profile, the
settings are not changed. I can change the power settings, but when I
try to save them, the User account, of course, does not have the
proper permissions. The two different power settings do really work in
the Administrator account, and the stated but incorrect, really do
work on the User accounts.
On my daughter's computer the settings are:
Admin profile:
Plugged in:
Turn off Monitor: after 10 min
Turn off hard disks: never
System standby: after 15
System hibernates: never
Batteries:
Turn off Monitor: after 5 minutes
Turn off hard disks: after 15
System standby: after 10 min
System hibernates: after 20 min
User profile:
Plugged in:
Turn off Monitor: Never
Turn off hard disks: after 20
System standby: after 25
System hibernates: blank
Batteries:
Turn off Monitor: Never
Turn off hard disks: after 30
System standby: after 1 hour
System hibernates: blank
I have read about similar (but not the same) problems in this group.
Does anyone have a solution or a suggestion?
Thank you!
Bill