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Windows 2000 Professional/ Power Options

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by orosas

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I am running win2kPro, I log into a users computer as the local admin and I go to Start/Settings/Control Panel/Power Options I change the turn off monitor time from 3 minutes to 2 hours. The changes takes effect for the administrator but when I restart the computer and log in as the user the settings are still set to 3 minutes for the user. How can I make the change to be kept when the user log in. Help!!

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by skeeter grimshaw

Try adding the user to the administrators group and then changing the power options as the user. Once completed, remove the user from the administrators group.

by dont-bother

Sorry Skeeter, that's not going to work either.
Problem is pre-canned registry setting power options by Microsoft.

Other than editing the registry...

The 'EASIEST' way to change the options PERMANENTLY is to (as an Admin) run the Control Panel Power Settings, make your changes, then...
SAVE those changes back to the SAME NAME.

After making your changes - choose the SaveAs button and for example, if you made changes to
'Home/Office Desk' settings then make sure you save changes to the name 'Home/Office Desk'.

Funny how Microsoft made the monitor turn off after 20 min under the 'Always On' settings???
I'd love to meet the Programmer/Manager that made that decision.

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