Win XP Home and Power Options

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I have an interesting problem. I (as administrator) set the power options
to Scheme: Home/Office (it was Presentaion). Then I set the Turn Off
Monitor to Never (was After 20 mins). I Applyed the changes and all was
well.

I then logged off as admin and logged on as a Restricted User and the Power
Options reflect the old version (i.e. Presentation and After 20 mins
respectively. When I try to change this, I get Access Denied. I even
rebooted and retraced the above steps but I still can't change the
restricted users Power Options to match mine (the Admin).

What am I overlooking? I would have thought that by changing the options as
an admin that they would propagate to the other users.

Any help would be appreciated...

Dick

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Thanks, Andy.

I knew that I could become an admin and change it back etc but I thought
that there must be an easier or 'proper' way to do it.

Thanks again...

Dick

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> "Dick Sutton" <rsutton43@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>I have an interesting problem. I (as administrator) set the power options
>>to Scheme: Home/Office (it was Presentaion). Then I set the Turn Off
>>Monitor to Never (was After 20 mins). I Applyed the changes and all was
>>well.
>>
>> I then logged off as admin and logged on as a Restricted User and the
>> Power Options reflect the old version (i.e. Presentation and After 20
>> mins respectively. When I try to change this, I get Access Denied. I
>> even rebooted and retraced the above steps but I still can't change the
>> restricted users Power Options to match mine (the Admin).
>>
>> What am I overlooking? I would have thought that by changing the options
>> as an admin that they would propagate to the other users.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated...
>>
>> Dick
>>
>
> Power options are user level settings. In order to set the power option
> for other users you need to log in as administrator, change the users
> account to administrator, log in as the user, change power options, log
> user out, change user back to non-administrator privileges.
>
> If you want to set user accounts so that each user can change the power
> options, without being an administrator, then you need to change a
> registry key - google will show you the way!
>
> Andy
>