User account and Power Managment

[jschauf]

I am having a problem and was wondering if anyone has found a work around for this. We have some laptops that users are not able to adjust any of the power management features because they have standard user accounts. Our policy is to not give them admin accounts. Does anyone know how I can either give them the ability to adjust power management settings or if there is a way I can adjust them globally on the system to increase some of the times for all users and not just my admin account.

 

[Crowley16]

I don't know if this applies for you but with my toshiba, there's a custom power saver program that will adjust the power features, and do lots more, and because it's an independant application, you can set it's access level...

I imagine there are other programs which will do the same...

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[gpalmer711]

Not sure if this would work but you could try giving the users full access via NTFS security settings to c:\windows\system32\powercfg.cpl

Greg Palmer
Freeware Utilities for Windows Administrators.

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[jschauf]

I tried changing the rights to the powercfg.cpl and no change. The error that pops up on the screen is:
Power Policy Manager unable to set active policy
Access is denied
The only way i have been able to alow the user the ability to change this is to give them admin, alow them to change it and then take admin away.

 

[gpalmer711]

Again not sure if this would work, don't have time to test at the moment, but you could try RunAsUser on the powercfg.cpl file.

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk/main.asp?content=runasuser

Greg Palmer
Freeware Utilities for Windows Administrators.

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[jschauf]

I think I have figured it out. I had to give them full control of the powercfg.cpl and full control of the following registry settings.

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/ControlFolders/PowerCFG

HKUsers/.Default/ControlPanel/PowerCfg

The the latter give them rights to the HKCurrentUser when the get logged in as themselves. I pushed this out via group policy and it took care of my problem. Thanks for some of the help.

 

[gpalmer711]

Glad you got it sorted.

Greg Palmer
Freeware Utilities for Windows Administrators.

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[bcastner]

In the alternative, I think granting this right: SeLoadDriverPrivilege is likely sufficient.

I apologize, as I have not tested it.

See:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q266280/\