Power Options, schemes with different users

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,Hi

Something is wrong. I have set up a dozen notebooks and was sure to set all
energy options to never. Most importantly standby = never. But the maschine
still goes into standby after 20 minutes.

BTW: Windows XP sp1, German with some security updates.

So I checked the energy options using a regular user (which is logged in)
and it displays

Desktop
monitor = 20 mins
disks = never
standby = never
hibernate = ** Hey, here it displays an empty box. That's not right, is it ?
**

Never mind.

So I runas administrator and check out the settings and here I find that it
has a complete different scheme.

So now I wanted to be real cool and copied from the windows server 2003 a
nifty tool which is called powercfg.exe (c:\windows\system32) which is all I
want, but it is said to be working only on w2k3. Which may be correct but I
run it anyway.

So I get what I want with

powercfg /l

powercfg /q (This displays the currently selected)


It says the same as what I've seen with the dialog. So now as administrator
I do a

powercfg.exe /setactive dauerbetrieb (This is "always on" )

and hope that now the d... notebook does not go to sleep.

Anybody nows which settings the windows xp actually uses and when and from
which user?????

I haven't found a whitepaper or anything but I have found out that there is
a hotfix

KB Article: 818133 which is

Default Power Mangement Policy is not applied when you start windows xp.

Symptoms:

When you start XP, the default power mgmt policy is not applied to the
computer as expected.


** Well that "expected" could mean me. But I'm not sure.

Anybody having the same problem?