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Power scheme policy

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by lheisey

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Where is the policy that will allow users to set/change their power scheme? Admin is fine but users get an error Power Policy Manger unable to get active policy.

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by ewgny

There is none. The reason the users can't change the power scheme is that they only have read permissions on the associated registry key.
To allow them to change power settings, Drill down to the following
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Software - Microsoft - windows - current version - controls folder
Add authenticated users and give it full permissions to the controls folder,they will then be able to change the power settings.
I do this modification prior to imaging, so that I don't have to go to each workstation to make the changes.

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